Judge Sawyer, whom in vain the people tried <br />To push from power, here is laid aside. <br />Death only from the bench could ever start <br />The sluggish load of his immortal part. <br /> <br />____ <br /> <br />For those this mausoleum is erected <br />Who Stanford to the Upper House elected. <br />Their luck is less or their promotion slower, <br />For, dead, they were elected to the Lower. <br /> <br />____ <br /> <br />Rash mortal! stay thy feet and look around- <br />This vacant tomb as yet is holy ground; <br />But soon, alas! Jim Fair will occupy <br />These premises-then, holiness, good-bye! <br /> <br />____ <br /> <br />George Perry here lies stiff and stark, <br />With stone at foot and stone at head. <br />His heart was dark, his mind was dark- <br />'Ignorant ass!' the people said. <br /> <br />Not ignorant but skilled, alas, <br />In all the secrets of his trade: <br />He knew more ways to be an ass <br />Than any ass that ever brayed.<br /><br />Ambrose Bierce<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-wreath-of-immortelles/
