Death & Dying
For those this mausoleum is erected
From Black Beetles in Amber (1892)
Death & Dying
For those this mausoleum is erected
Who Stanford to the Upper House elected.
Their luck is less or their promotion slower,
For, dead, they were elected to the Lower.
Cite this poem
MLA
Bierce, Ambrose. “For those this mausoleum is erected.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/427/.
Chicago
Bierce, Ambrose. “For those this mausoleum is erected.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bierce/427/.
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