But seldom humble with his fortitude, The sorrowful man who cracked the sure-fire jokes, Roared over Artemus Ward and Orpheus C. Kerr And drove his six cross mules with a stubborn hand. He has lost a son, but he has no time to grieve for him. He studies tactics now till late in the night With the same painful, hewing industry He put on studying law. McClellan comes, McClellan goes, McClellan bustles and argues, McClellan is too busy to see the President, McClellan complains of this, complains of that, The Government is not supporting him, The Government cannot understand grand strategy, The Government⁠— McClellan feels abused. McClellan is quite sincere and sometimes right. They come to the lonely man about McClellan With various tales. McClellan lacks respect, McClellan dreams about a dictatorship,

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