The Outline of History

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Drunken
Men, growing sober,
Talk loudly
Of their “love,”
“Hatred,”
and so on—
                A headache.

Dead gods
                Between the shutters.

The French
Of Prussia in the story
Is the story
                Of affairs in Poland—

Unlike.

The monarchy
Had not developed
                Government
                With a king.
Each king
                Elected
                                 More
Republican,

More aristocratic.
Poland was agricultural
With great
                Waste.

Aristocrats,
The mass,
And savagely
                Ignorant.

She also
Very poor.
She was
Catholic,
Surrounded by
                Enemies.

She had no
                Definite
Sea, nor
                Mountain.
Her misfortunes
Elected kings—
                                ag-
gressive rulers,
                                ex-

-Patrick Conners Jr