Ambrose Bierce

24 June 1842 - 26 December 1913 / Horse Cave Creek, Ohio

Aspiration

Lo! the wild rabbit, happy in the pride
Of qualities to meaner beasts denied,
Surveys the ass with reverence and fear,
Adoring his superior length of ear,
And says: 'No living creature, lean or fat,
But wishes in his heart to be like That!'
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