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

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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 trudge
When 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!