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Collegiate Fools
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Though nothing can bring back
the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind
-William
Wordsworth, Ode |
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There are things there which we cannot see;
cannot understand (not you nor I)
How can collegiate fools, who daily struggle
to make the grade, blame and mock one man?
This one man is so far away from the fool we are.
And he is in fact not one man, but hundreds
upon thousands - advising and thinking,
writing and reading, listening and talking,
seeing and learning, spying and surviving;
their jobs and their lives they dedicate to you and to me;
to this beautiful country so that we may be free
All this do you, yet a fool, trash and mock
in ignorance and vain belief that you know better
than a thousand men and women of so many more years
and such high education of specific learned skills.
So by all means learn and become educated
with the matters of state and current events.
But be contently certain that you will never obtain
all the knowledge of a thousand advisors, direct
and indirect, to the President and the government.
So by this let not opinions of varied ignorance
gather hatred or grudge; for these are not worthy
of such powerful feelings of negativity which
can only bring down a strong nation, shackle
a free country, and break a united people.
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