I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:
The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
The man who looked through like a windowpane:
The man who was the colour of the carriage, the colour of the mounting
Morning pipe smoke.
I am the man too busy with a living to live,
Too hurried and worried to see and smell and touch:
The man who is patient too long and obeys too much
And wishes too softly and seldom.

I am the man they call the nation’s backbone,
Who am boneless; playable castgut, pliable clay:
The Man they label Little lest one day
I dare to grow.

I am the rails on which the moment passes,
The megaphone for many words and voices:
I am the graph diagram,
Composite face.

I am the led, the easily-fed,
The tool, the not-quite-fool,
The would-be-safe-and-sound,
The uncomplaining, bound,
The dust fine-ground,
Stone-for-a-statue waveworn pebble-round

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Poems in English 

• The Confederate Flags poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Christian poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• The Bride poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• A Wreath Of Immortelles poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• With a Book poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Weather poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• To the Bartholdi Statue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• The Statesmen poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Safety-Clutch poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Rimer poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Piety poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Ambrose Bierce – Ambrose Bierce Poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Freedom poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Elegy poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Decalogue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• An Inion poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• Alone poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry by Ambrose Bierce
• On Beer by Fledermaus

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