An Explanation Poem by Ambrose Bierce

An Explanation

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'I never yet exactly could determine
Just how it is that the judicial ermine
Is kept so safely from predacious vermin.'

'It is not so, my friend: though in a garret
'Tis kept in camphor, and you often air it,
The vermin will get into it and wear it.'

Ambrose Bierce
Friday, September 28, 2012
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