Ambrose Bierce(1842–1914?) · The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume V · Black Beetles in Amber · 1911?
Two monks upon a field of battle Observed some lean and hungry cattle. Said one: “But little feed is growing Where Death so lately has been mowing.”
Replied the other, gravely eying The piles of dead about them lying: “All flesh is grass—I’m quite confounded That cows should starve by hay surrounded.”