History & Politics
Stephen Dorsey
From Shapes of Clay (1903)
Fly, heedless stranger, from this spot accurst,
Where rests in Satan an offender first
In point of greatness, as in point of time,
Of new-school rascals who proclaim their crime.
Skilled with a frank loquacity to blab
The dark arcana of each mighty grab,
And famed for lying from his early youth,
He sinned secure behind a veil of truth.
Some lock their lips upon their deeds; some write
A damning record and conceal from sight;
Some, with a lust of speaking, die to quell it.
His way to keep a secret was to tell it.
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MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “Stephen Dorsey.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/382/.
Chicago
Bierce, Ambrose. “Stephen Dorsey.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/382/.
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