Poem by Robert Lee Frost

A Case for Jefferson

Harrison loves my country too,
But wants it all made over new.
He's Freudian Viennese by night.
By day he's Marxian Muscovite.
It isn't because he's Russian Jew.
He's Puritan Yankee through and through.
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens:
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it all made over new.

1. The Gift Outright
2. The Broken Drought
3. Away!
4. Flower Guidance
5. The Courage to Be New

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