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1842–1914

THE LORD'S PRAYER ON A COIN.

Ambrose Bierce

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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