And really I don't know

How you can stop Jim Crow,

And let the rich

Carry their concerts, Sir, to such a concert pitch.

And, if, Sir, I may speak

My mind, your plan to gag our week

(Tho' done, perhaps, with very best intention)

Is but a weak invention.

Besides, Sir, here's a poser,—

At least to me it seems a closer,