In Other Words/T.R. to W.H.T.

by Franklin P. Adams

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IN OTHER WORDS

 

T. R. to W. H. T.

“I was a king in Babylon And you were a christian slave.”Henley.

 

Or ever the knightly fight was on, The skirmish of smear and smudge,I was a King in Washington And you were a circuit judge.

I saw, I took, I made you great,  Friendly I called you Will,And back in Nineteen Hundred and Eight, Out in Chicago, Ill.,I made the convention nominate, And now—the terrible chill.

For many a sun has set and shone On the path we used to trudgeWhen I was a King in Washington And you were a circuit judge.

I passed the lie and you passed it back; You said I was all untruth;I said that honesty was your lack;

 

 You said I’d nor reck nor ruth.You called me megalomaniac— I called you a Serpent’s Tooth.

And now the convention days are gone And the past is full of grudge; Yet—I was a King in Washington, And you were a circuit judge!