Granted that what we summon is absurd:
Moustaches and the stick, the New York fake
In cowboy costume grinning for the sake
Of cameras which always just occurred;
Granted that his Rough Riders fought a third
Rate army badly run, and had to make
Headlines to fatten Hearst; that one can take
Trust-busting not precisely at its word;
Robinson, who was drunken and unread,
Received a letter with a White House frank.
To court the Muse, T. R. might well have killed her,
And had her stuffed, yet here this mountebank
Chose to belaurel Robinson instead
Of famous men like Richard Watson Gilder.
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