The Devil's Dictionary: Allegiance

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
ALLAH
ALLIANCE

ALLEGIANCE

-n.

This thing Allegiance, as I suppose,
Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose,
Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed
To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed.

-G.J.

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