Social Commentaries

Arthur McEwen

by Ambrose Bierce 1842–c. 1914

From Shapes of Clay (1903)

Social Commentaries

Posterity with all its eyes
Will come and view him where he lies.
Then, turning from the scene away
With a concerted shrug, will say:
"H'm, Scarabaeus Sisyphus--
What interest has that to us?
We can't admire at all, at all,
A tumble-bug without its ball."
And then a sage will rise and say:
"Good friends, you err--turn back, I pray:
This freak that you unwisely shun
Is bug and ball rolled into one."

MLA

Bierce, Ambrose. “Arthur McEwen.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/206/.

Chicago

Bierce, Ambrose. “Arthur McEwen.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/206/.

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