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Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914.

By Ambrose Bierce

Politics

THAT land full surely hastens to its end

Where 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.