We underfunded, We happy underfunded, We band of Badgers
If Shakespeare had been a Wisconsin DUer...
From another post: "Oh, but that we now had here
Ten million dollars more from DC
That sits in chests not buying air-time to-day!
Deserving its own thread,
ShakespeareasDUer's reply:
Who is it that wishes so?
My fellows Hue, or Scuba? RBinMaine? No!
No, my fair DU cousins…
We are registered to vote, and we are enough
To cast our lot for justice, and if we win
The fewer dollars, the greater share of honor…
God’s will! I pray you, wish not for one more dollar.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who feeds upon our cost;
It yearns me not if penniless our ad buys wear;
Such media things dwell not in our desires.
But. If it be a sin to covet the honor of a vote for Progress
We are the most offending souls alive!!
No. Faith, my cousins! Wish not a dollar from DC
God’s Peace! I would not lose so great an honor
As one dollar more would take a share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it through the base
That those who have no stomach for this recall
Let them keep their checkbooks tight.
We will not go to vote in the company
of those that fear their spending wasted on us
For that day our grandchildren will name THE RECALL.
We will outlive the day, and come safe home
and forever stand a tip-toe when this day is named
to rouse us at the name of RECALL
We that live this day, and see old age,
Will recall the protest marches to children at our knee
And remember yearly of the night before
When we said “June 5th is THE RECALL”
Then we will strip the attic to prove our vote
Laid on a window sign, a sticker claiming “I voted!”
Old minds forget, yet not all shall be forgotten.
But we’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats we did coming to that day.
Then shall our names Be counted
among the Million Souls of March
A story for each good voter to tell their young,
And the word RECALL shall ne’r be spoken
From that day to the ending of the world,
But WE IN IT shall be remembered.
We underfunded,
We happy underfunded,
We band of Badgers
For each that casts a vote with us
Shall be kin, be they even republican
This day shall gentle that condition.
And distant leaders in New York or Georgetown beds
Shall think themselves accurs’d that they came not here,
And they shall hold their offices cheap while any speak
of those that voted with us for RECALL.
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