Death & Dying
Here Porter Ashe is laid to rest
From Black Beetles in Amber (1892)
Death & Dying
Here Porter Ashe is laid to rest
Green grows the grass upon his breast.
This patron of the turf, I vow,
Ne'er served it half so well as now.
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MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “Here Porter Ashe is laid to rest.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/440/.
Chicago
Bierce, Ambrose. “Here Porter Ashe is laid to rest.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/440/.
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