Social Commentaries
To an Aspirant
From Shapes of Clay (1903)
Social Commentaries
What! you a Senator--you, Mike de Young?
Still reeking of the gutter whence you sprung?
Sir, if all Senators were such as you,
Their hands so crimson and so slender, too,--
(Shaped to the pocket for commercial work,
For literary, fitted to the dirk)--
So black their hearts, so lily-white their livers,
The toga's touch would give a man the shivers.
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MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “To an Aspirant.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/360/.
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Bierce, Ambrose. “To an Aspirant.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/360/.
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