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# Mnemonic
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- Published: 2023-09-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Ambition once decided to announce that it no longer wanted wealth or power. Greed seconded, demanding not an ounce beyond what it was due. Before the hour was struck the others followed, each in turn denouncing this o...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Ambition once decided to announce  
that it no longer wanted wealth or power.  
Greed seconded, demanding not an ounce  
beyond what it was due. Before the hour  
was struck the others followed, each in turn  
denouncing this or that, and filled with passion,  
renounce, reject, repudiate and spurn  
their nature's calling. Soon, it's all the fashion:  
Fear dares to dare, and Anger starts to cool,  
Ambivalence makes hard and fast decisions,  
while Ignorance, excited, goes to school,  
and learns about our pluses and divisions.  
Unfortunately, it all came to naught.  
Perfection quit, and History forgot.