Social Commentaries
A Bequest to Music
From Shapes of Clay (1903)
Social Commentaries
"Let music flourish!" So he said and died.
Hark! ere he's gone the minstrelsy begins:
The symphonies ascend, a swelling tide,
Melodious thunders fill the welkin wide--
The grand old lawyers, chinning on their chins!
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MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “A Bequest to Music.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/296/.
Chicago
Bierce, Ambrose. “A Bequest to Music.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/296/.
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