Rod Blagojevich has been impeached. An occasion, the Illinois governor thinks, that calls for a bit of verse.
Last month, under pressure to resign, he took comfort in Kipling's If. Things are more serious now, apparently: It's time for Tennyson.
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will, indeed.
But surely the midwesterner could have chosen an American bard? Dear readers, if you stood accused of political corruption, in whose poetry would you find solace?
UPDATE:
Lieutenant governor Pat Quinn has responded to our question. His pick: sold old New Englander Katharine Lee Bates and America the Beautiful:
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
