Art

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Title:     Art
Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce]

For Gladstone's portrait five thousand pounds
Were paid, 't is said, to Sir John Millais.
I cannot help thinking that such fine pay
Transcended reason's uttermost bounds.

For it seems to me uncommonly queer
That a painted British stateman's price
Exceeds the established value thrice
Of a living statesman over here.

[The end]
Ambrose Bierce's poem: Art

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