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1842–1914

THE BRIDE.

Ambrose Bierce

“You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house — Divorced old barren Reason from my bed And took the Daughter of the Vine to spouse.”

So sang the Lord of Poets. In a gleam Of light that made her like an angel seem, The Daughter of the Vine said: “I myself Am Reason, and the Other was a Dream.”

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