History & Politics

The Committee on Public Morals

by Ambrose Bierce 1842–c. 1914

From Black Beetles in Amber (1892)

History & Politics

The Senate met in Sacramento city;
On public morals it had no committee
Though greatly these abounded. Soon the quiet
Was broken by the Senators in riot.
Now, at the end of their contagious quarrels,
There's a committee but no public morals.

MLA

Bierce, Ambrose. “The Committee on Public Morals.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/136/.

Chicago

Bierce, Ambrose. “The Committee on Public Morals.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/136/.

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