Death & Dying
Dennis Spencer's mortal coil
From Black Beetles in Amber (1892)
Death & Dying
Dennis Spencer's mortal coil
Here is laid away to spoil--
Great riparian, who said
Not a stream should leave its bed.
Now his soul would like a river
Turned upon its parching liver.
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MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “Dennis Spencer's mortal coil.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/426/.
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Bierce, Ambrose. “Dennis Spencer's mortal coil.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/426/.
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