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 He learned the party countersigns by rote, And when to clap his hands, and how to vote.

He learned that Clinton became Governor Somehow by chance, when we were all asleep; That he had neither sense, nor talent, nor Any good quality, and would not keep His place an hour after the next election— So powerful was the voice of disaffection:

That he was a mere puppet made to play A thousand tricks, while Spencer touched the springs— Spencer, the mighty Warwick of his day, "That setter up, and puller down of kings," Aided by Miller, Pell, and Doctor Graham, And other men of equal worth and fame.

And that he'd set the people at defiance, By placing knaves and fools in public stations; And that his works in literature and science Were but a schoolboy's web of misquotations; And that he'd quoted from the devil even— "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."