Metempsychosis [Once with Christ he entered Salem]

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Title:     Metempsychosis [Once with Christ he entered Salem]
Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce]

Once with Christ he entered Salem,
Once in Moab bullied Balaam,
Once by Apuleius staged
He the pious much enraged.
And, again, his head, as beaver,
Topped the neck of Nick the Weaver.
Omar saw him (minus tether--
Free and wanton as the weather:
Knowing naught of bit or spur)
Stamping over Bahram-Gur.
Now, as Altgeld, see him joy
As Governor of Illinois!

[The end]
Ambrose Bierce's poem: Metempsychosis

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