Social Commentaries

Incurable

by Ambrose Bierce 1842–c. 1914

From Shapes of Clay (1903)

Social Commentaries

From pride, joy, hate, greed, melancholy--
From any kind of vice, or folly,
Bias, propensity or passion
That is in prevalence and fashion,
Save one, the sufferer or lover
May, by the grace of God, recover:
Alone that spiritual tetter,
The zeal to make creation better,
Glows still immedicably warmer.
Who knows of a reformed reformer?

MLA

Bierce, Ambrose. “Incurable.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/290/.

Chicago

Bierce, Ambrose. “Incurable.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/290/.

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