(And Finley, Coolidge, Cox and Buck
Were trusted not to run amuck.)
For we, in liberal Western lands,
Approve or not by show of hands,
While Russian leaders not approved
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Are often physically removed,
And suffrage such as this may last
(By knife and gun and fatal blast)
Till Opposition disappears-
Which may not be for years and years.
Instead, to our intense chagrin,
The Russian men are quickly in,
And many months have come and gone
While we vote on and on and on...
Finley's champion, with tree fever,
Nesting early next to Sever,
May age and die in passing years
But never move the Overseers. Mark Jacobs '55