DETECTED
by: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
- N Congress
once great Mowther shone,
- Debating weighty matters;
- Now into an asylum thrown,
- He vacuously chatters.
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- If in that legislative hall
- His wisdom still he'd vented,
- It never had been known at all
- That Mowther was demented.
"Detected" is reprinted
from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce Vol. IV: Shapes
of Clay. Ambrose Bierce. New York: Neale Publishing Company,
1910. |
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