Social Commentaries

The Lord's Prayer on a Coin

by Ambrose Bierce 1842–c. 1914

From Shapes of Clay (1903)

Social Commentaries

Upon this quarter-eagle's leveled face,
The Lord's Prayer, legibly inscribed, I trace.
"Our Father which"--the pronoun there is funny,
And shows the scribe to have addressed the money--
"Which art in Heaven"--an error this, no doubt:
The preposition should be stricken out.
Needless to quote; I only have designed
To praise the frankness of the pious mind
Which thought it natural and right to join,
With rare significancy, prayer and coin.

MLA

Bierce, Ambrose. “The Lord's Prayer on a Coin.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/275/.

Chicago

Bierce, Ambrose. “The Lord's Prayer on a Coin.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/275/.

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