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Professionally teaching freedom, Rand
In Atlas Shrugged would bureaucrats disband.

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Professionally teaching freedom, all
Von Mises said of Russia would befall.

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Professionally teaching freedom, does
Not DiLorenzo question Lincoln’s cause?

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Triumphantly professing liberty,
Ayn Rand elucidated slavery.

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Triumphantly professing liberty,
Ayn Rand made fictive reason fiery.

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Productively professing liberty,
Men propagate their mindful property.

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Rand, crushingly professing liberty,
Proved largeness a superfluous tyranny.

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Rand crushingly professed, “Decrease the state,
Which for expenses is extortionate.“

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Rand crushingly professed how crazed men are
Who would audacious enterprise debar.

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Rand crushingly made clear how socialists
Would crack us down however life resists.

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Rand, crushingly particular in all
Disproofs of intervention, does not pall.

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Rand, fruitfully profuse in instances
Of liberal impetus, enlightened is.

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A thoroughfare celeritously clear
In thought I follow, finding Rand sincere.

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A thoroughfare, peculiar to my thought,
Is parallel to Rand’s, in poetry wrought.

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Reisman, regardfully professing right
From governmental wrong, has won his fight.

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Reisman, humiliating hubris, means
That insalubrious Brussels overweens.

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Rand lucidly humiliates the class
Of authorizers who would shape one mass.

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Rand lucidly humiliates the great
Egalitarian hubris of the state.

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Rand’s strongest clarity distinguishes
At work unobviated geniuses.

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Rand’s strongest clarity distinguishes
How motive innovation flourishes.

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Rand’s forward clarity distinguishes
What private savoir-faire accomplishes.

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Rand humbled the omniscient measurers
Who’d blank distinctions with concerted blurs.

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Rand humbled the omniscient measurers
Who guard equations where no good occurs.

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Rand humbled the harageous orderers
Of futile offices, where each one errs.

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Rand humbled governmental hubris, not
Astounded by its overweening thought.

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Rand humbled governmental hubris, not
In marvelment astounded by their plot.

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Rand, not bewildered by the ropery
Dissemblers offer, disillusioned me.
Aaron
Welcome. Thanks for a truly unique and somewhat bizarre first post! The references to not only Rand but even Reisman and DiLorenzo were surprising. I checked your blog site, and like the FDR couplets there.
F L Light
Aaron,
Reisman and his friend, Ralph Raico, both attended Bronx Science, the high school from which I graduated many years after them. His online textbook and his audio files at Mises.org are excellent.
If you thought the couplets were "bizarre." then other contributors to this board may have deemed heroic couplets strange.
The couplets on FDR are one page from a hundred. Another post has been added to that site.
I am something of an acquired taste. Most readers need instruction to enjoy Milton and Shakespeare.
F L
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