Stoneman In Heaven

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Title:     Stoneman In Heaven
Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce]

The Seraphs came to Christ, and said: "Behold!
The man, presumptuous and overbold,
Who boasted that his mercy could excel
Thine own, is dead and on his way to Hell."

Gravely the Saviour asked: "What did he do
To make his impious assertion true?"

"He was a Governor, releasing all
The vilest felons ever held in thrall.
No other mortal, since the dawn of time,
Has ever pardoned such a mass of crime!"

Christ smiled benignly on the Seraphim:
"Yet I am victor, for I pardon _him_."

[The end]
Ambrose Bierce's poem: Stoneman In Heaven

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