Social Commentaries

Re-Edified

by Ambrose Bierce 1842–c. 1914

From Shapes of Clay (1903)

Social Commentaries

Lord of the tempest, pray refrain
From leveling this church again.
Now in its doom, as so you've willed it,
We acquiesce. But you'll rebuild it.

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Bierce, Ambrose. “Re-Edified.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/356/.

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Bierce, Ambrose. “Re-Edified.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/356/.

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