 | The collected works of Ambrose Bierce |  |
THE LORD'S PRAYER ON A COIN
Upon this quarter-eagle's leveled face,The Lord's Prayer, legibly inscribed, I trace.
“Our Father which”—the pronoun there is funny,
And shows the scribe to have addressed the money—
“Which art in Heaven”—an error this, no doubt:
The preposition should be stricken out.
Needless to quote; I only have designed
To praise the frankness of the pious mind
Which thought it natural and right to join,
With rare significancy, prayer and coin.
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