by Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?)
To men
Language: English
To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. O, Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go, But heed the warning words the sage hath said: A woman absent is a woman dead.
note: followed by Jogo Tyree in the dictionary entry
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Text Authorship:
- by Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), appears in The Devil's Dictionary, entry for "Absent", first published 1911 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert F. Baksa (b. 1938), "To men", from A Cynic's Cycle, no. 3. [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2004-05-17
Line count: 6
Word count: 50