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1842–1914

TO AN ASPIRANT.

Ambrose Bierce

What! you a Senator — you, Mike de Young? Still reeking of the gutter whence you sprung? Sir, if all Senators were such as you, Their hands so crimson and so slender, too,—

( Shaped to the pocket for commercial work, For literary, fitted to the dirk ) — So black their hearts, so lily-white their livers, The toga's touch would give a man the shivers.

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