English poem
AN EXAMPLE.
by Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
They were two deaf mutes, and they loved and they Resolved to be groom and bride; And they listened to nothing that any could say, Nor ever a word replied.
From wedlock when warned by the married men, Maintain an invincible mind: Be deaf and dumb until wedded—and then Be deaf and dumb and blind.