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Not Guilty

by Ambrose Bierce

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“I saw your charms in another’s arms,” Said a Grecian swain with his blood a-boil; “And he kissed you fair as he held you there, A willing bird in a serpent’s coil!”
The maid looked up from the cinctured cup Wherein she was crushing the berries red, Pain and surprise in her honest eyes⁠— “It was only one o’ those gods,” she said.

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