Granted that what we summon is absurd:
Mustaches and the stick, the New York fake
In cowboy costume grinning for the sake
Of cameras that always just occurred;
Granted that his Rough Riders fought a third-
Rate army badly run, to make
Headlines to fatten Hearst: that one can take
Trust-busting not exactly at its word;

Robinson, who was drunken and unread,
Received a letter with a White House frank.
To court the Muse, T.R. might well have killed her
And had her stuffed, yet here this mountebank
Chose to belaurel Robinson instead
Of famous men like Richard Watson Gilder.




Edward Arlington Robinson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Arlington_Robinson

Richard Watson Gilder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Watson_Gilder