Social Commentaries
Vanished at Cock-Crow
From Shapes of Clay (1903)
Social Commentaries
"I've found the secret of your charm," I said,
Expounding with complacency my guess.
Alas! the charm, even as I named it, fled,
For all its secret was unconsciousness.
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Bierce, Ambrose. “Vanished at Cock-Crow.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/281/.
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Bierce, Ambrose. “Vanished at Cock-Crow.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/281/.
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