Professionally Teaching Freedom - Couplets on Ayn Rand

[F L Light]

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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