by Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?)
The Graverobber
Language: English
"One night," a doctor said, "last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall. "While waiting for the moon to sink We saw a wild hyena slink About a new-made grave, and then Begin to excavate its brink! "Shocked by the horrid act, we made A sally from our ambuscade, And, falling on the unholy beast, Dispatched him with a pick and spade."
note: followed by Bettel K. Jhones in the dictionary entry
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Text Authorship:
- by Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), appears in The Devil's Dictionary, the entry on "Body-snatcher", 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), "The Graverobber", from A Cynic's Cycle, no. 5. [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2004-05-17
Line count: 12
Word count: 74