Adair Welcker, Poet

The Swan of Avon died—the Swan

Of Sacramento'll soon be gone;

And when his death-song he shall coo,

Stand back, or it will kill you too.

"The Swan of Avon" was the name Ben Jonson gave to Shakespeare.Writer Adair Welker, the self-proclaimed "Sacramento Shakespeare" was a longtime victim of Bierce's satire.