Their voice is heard from heights afar;

They tell us why the peoples rise and fall;

They sang and on the hill tops wrought,

While dupe and knave went down;

They knew the last of Folly’s battles would be fought.

III.

Obstructionists abide, alas in State,

The demagogue and fool,

The dullard in his school,

Who far behind the generation plods,