The Lord's Prayer On A Coin
Ambrose Bierce 1842 (Meigs County) – 1914 (Chihuahua)
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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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 435 |
Words | 73 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
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