 | The collected works of Ambrose Bierce |  |
POLITICS
That land full surely hastens to its endWhere public sycophants in homage bend
The populace to flatter, and repeat
The doubled echoes of its loud conceit.
Lowly their attitude but high their aim,
They creep to eminence through paths of shame,
Till, fixed securely in the seats of pow'r,
The dupes they flattered they at last devour.
| The collected works of Ambrose Bierce | |