Ambrose Bierce(1842–1914?) · The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume IV · The Scrap Heap · 1910?
On Maunday Thursday, as was good and meet, The Emperor of Austria washed the feet Of twelve poor men to show how humble he For twenty minutes of the year could be. O Thou, who trackest tenants of the throne Through moral quagmires, make them wash their own.