Death & Dying
Step lightly, stranger: here Jerome B. Cox
From Black Beetles in Amber (1892)
Death & Dying
Step lightly, stranger: here Jerome B. Cox
Is for the second time in a bad box.
He killed a man--the labor party rose
And showed him by its love how killing goes.
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MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “Step lightly, stranger: here Jerome B. Cox.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/438/.
Chicago
Bierce, Ambrose. “Step lightly, stranger: here Jerome B. Cox.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/438/.
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