Death & Dying
A Water-Pirate
From Black Beetles in Amber (1892)
Death & Dying
Pause, stranger--whence you lightly tread
Bill Carr's immoral part has fled.
For him no heart of woman burned,
But all the rivers' heads he turned.
Alas! he now lifts up his eyes
In torment and for water cries,
Entreating that he may procure
One drop to cool his parched McClure!
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MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “A Water-Pirate.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/417/.
Chicago
Bierce, Ambrose. “A Water-Pirate.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/417/.
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