Envoi (from "Fiscal Ballads")

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Title:     Envoi (from "Fiscal Ballads")
Author: Harry Graham [More Titles by Graham]

PROTECTIONIST! (if you exist)
Whose sympathies I can't enlist,
Be sparing of your curses!
Ah, don't abuse my Fiscal VIEWS,
But, out of pity for the Muse,
Look only at my VERSES!

FREE TRADER, too, I beg of you,
Whatever else you think or do,
My lack of skill excuse. Ah!
No doubt my VERSE could not be worse,
And weak the rhymes that I rehearse;
But, then, how sound my VIEWS are!

(Thus may I strengthen--or convert,
And no one's feelings need be hurt!)

[The end]
Harry Graham's poem: Envoi

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