Social Commentaries
Epitaph on the Politician Himself
From Sonnets and Verse (1923)
Social Commentaries
Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
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MLA
Belloc, Hilaire. “Epitaph on the Politician Himself.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/belloc/166/.
Chicago
Belloc, Hilaire. “Epitaph on the Politician Himself.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/belloc/166/.
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