PARTYWOCKY

'Twas brillig, and the candidates

Did gamble on the either wabe,

All mimsy were the running mates

And mome promises outgabe.

 

"Beware the Partywock, my son,

The bilge that binds, the clause that catch;

Beware the Caucus-Bird, and shun

The White House Bandersnatchl


He took his votal sword in hand,

Long time the wardsome schmoes he sought,

So rested he by the Election Tree

And stood awhile and thought;

 

And as in November thought he stood

The Partywock with eyes of tax

Came-paining through through the Public Good

And gave him forty whacks.

 

One-two, one- two, and he was through,
The fiscal blade his income nicked;
It left him smote, and with h is vote
The rival Wockies licked.

"And didst return thy Partywock?

 Come to our office, squeamish boy!

O frabjius day, can we make hay!"

 Re-negging in its joy.



T'was, 'tis, and 'twill thus brillig be

While foolish toves applaud the wabe,

And each mome raths, in hopes that he

Will momer raths outgrabe!

 

 

Circa 1935

 

 

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