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A poem by Ambrose Bierce

Politics

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Title:     Politics
Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce]

That land full surely hastens to its end
Where public sycophants in homage bend
The populace to flatter, and repeat
The doubled echoes of its loud conceit.
Lowly their attitude but high their aim,
They creep to eminence through paths of shame,
Till fixed securely in the seats of pow'r,
The dupes they flattered they at last devour.







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Ambrose Bierce's poem: Politics

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