Lyr Add: A Rational Anthem (Ambrose Bierce)

Subject: Lyr Add: A Rational Anthem (Ambrose Bierce)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Apr 25 - 05:40 PM

A Rational Anthem
(Ambrose Bierce )

My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of felony,
Of thee I sing--
Land where my fathers fried
Young witches and applied
Whips to the Quaker's hide
And made him spring.

My knavish country, thee,
Land where the thief is free,
Thy laws I love;
I love thy thieving bills
That tap the people's tills;
I love thy mob whose will's
All laws above.

Let Federal employees
And rings rob all they please,
The whole year long.
Let office-holders make
Their piles and judges rake
Our coin. For Jesus' sake,
Let's all go wrong!


from Gerry Myerson

https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/rational-anthem

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A Rational Anthem (Ambrose Bierce)
From: robomatic
Date: 07 Apr 25 - 09:43 PM

Should go well with The War Prayer by Mark Twain.