28 May 2008...9:56 am

A Tale of Two (Half) Witties

There were errors and omissions. These have been corrected. Please see the REVISED post, entitled, eerily enough: “A Tale of Two (Half) Witties — REVISED.

“Keep, ancient hands, your storied pap!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your cash-poor,
Your humbug’d crasses yearning to be tax-free,
The wretched richies of your teeming store.
Send these, the debenture bond-less, IPO tempest-tost to me,
I lift my skirt beside the gold futures’ door!”

– Ronald Reagan, 1883