Social Commentaries
An Example
From Shapes of Clay (1903)
Social Commentaries
They were two deaf mutes, and they loved and they
Resolved to be groom and bride;
And they listened to nothing that any could say,
Nor ever a word replied.
From wedlock when warned by the married men,
Maintain an invincible mind:
Be deaf and dumb until wedded--and then
Be deaf and dumb and blind.
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Bierce, Ambrose. “An Example.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/352/.
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Bierce, Ambrose. “An Example.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/352/.
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