Social Commentaries
An Explanation
From Shapes of Clay (1903)
Social Commentaries
"I never yet exactly could determine
Just how it is that the judicial ermine
Is kept so safely from predacious vermin."
"It is not so, my friend: though in a garret
'Tis kept in camphor, and you often air it,
The vermin will get into it and wear it."
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MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “An Explanation.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/245/.
Chicago
Bierce, Ambrose. “An Explanation.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/245/.
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