Better Gutenberg
Free, beautifully formatted public-domain ebooks
‹Better GutenbergShapes of ClayThe Opposing Sex · 153 of 212Contents›

Shapes of Clay

by Ambrose Bierce

153 of 212 · Contents · Download EPUB

The Opposing Sex

The Widows of Ashur
  Are loud in their wailing:
“No longer the ‘masher’
Sees Widows of Ashur!”
So each is a lasher
  Of Man’s smallest failing.
The Widows of Ashur
  Are loud in their wailing.

The Cave of Adullam,
  That home of reviling—
No wooing can gull ’em
In Cave of Adullam.
No angel can lull ’em
  To cease their defiling
The Cave of Adullam,
  That home of reviling.

At men they are cursing—
  The Widows of Ashur;
Themselves, too, for nursing
The men they are cursing.
The praise they’re rehearsing
  Of every slasher
At men. They are cursing
  The Widows of Ashur.

← Back to Shapes of Clay

Scroll to Top