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PARTISAN REVIEW
Toy sword, three-cornered hat
At York and Lexington-
While
Bon-Homme
whipped at sea
This enemy
Whose roar went flat
After George made him run;
Toy rifle, leather hat
Above the boyish beard–
And in the Blue renown
The Gray went down,
Down like a rat,
And even the rats cheered.
In a much later age
(Europe had been in flames)
Proud Wilson yielded ground
To franc and pound,
Made pilgrimage
In the wake of Henry James.
Where Lou Quattorze held
fete
For sixty thousand men,
France took the German sword
But larer, bored,
Opened the gate
To Hitler at Compiegne.
In this bad time no part
The poet took, nor chance:
He studied Swift and Donne,
Ignored the Hun,
While with faint heart
Proust caused the fall of France.
Sad day at Oahu
When the Jap beetle hit!
Our Proustian retort
Was Kimmel and Short,
