Death & Dying
Beneath this stone O'Donnell's tongue's at rest
From Black Beetles in Amber (1892)
Death & Dying
Beneath this stone O'Donnell's tongue's at rest--
Our noses by his spirit still addressed.
Living or dead, he's equally Satanic--
His noise a terror and his smell a panic.
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MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “Beneath this stone O'Donnell's tongue's at rest.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/436/.
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Bierce, Ambrose. “Beneath this stone O'Donnell's tongue's at rest.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/436/.
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