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1842–1914

THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC MORALS

Ambrose Bierce

The Senate met in Sacramento city; On public morals it had no committee Though greatly these abounded. Soon the quiet Was broken by the Senators in riot.

Now, at the end of their contagious quarrels, There's a committee but no public morals.

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