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Alert as bird or early worm, / Yet gifted with those courtly ways / Which connoisseurs correctly term / The _tout-c'qu'-il-y-a de Louis seize_; / He reigns, by popular assent, / The People's peerless President!
Behold him! Squarely built and small; / With hands that would resemble Liszt's, / Did they not forcibly recall / The contour of Fitzsimmons' fists; / Beneath whose velvet gloves you feel / The politician's grip of steel.