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"Weather" by Ambrose Bierce

9/5/2008 6:53:04 AM
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(1842-1914)
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"Weather"
 
  Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,
And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be--
Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth,
With a record of unreason seldome paralleled on earth.
While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth,
From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth.
He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote
On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote--
For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow:
"Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow."

Ambrose Bierce


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Mark Nwagwu (7/11/2008 6:20:00 AM)
everything is there cloudy, windy, variable winds, cooler, snow - even I could forsee that for there is nothing much to forsee - shows you the folly of looking too far into the future instead of basking in the rose light of our todays
Archie Langford (7/11/2007 4:06:00 AM)
did he forsee the dreadful conflict that was imminent,
well written

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