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A poem by Ambrose Bierce |
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The Yearly Lie |
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Title: The Yearly Lie Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce] A merry Christmas? Prudent, as I live!-- Merry or sad, what does it signify? Your hollow greeting, like a parrot's jest, Why "merry" Christmas? Faith, I'd rather frown When fools are merry the judicious weep; A present? Pray you give it to disarm 'T was not your motive? Well, I cannot let Perish the savage custom of the gift, What men of honor need to aid their weal Go celebrate the day with turkeys, pies, Let Santa Claus descend again the flue; "A lie well stuck to is as good as truth," Hail Christmas! On my knees and fowl I fall: [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |