Sunday, May 13, 2001
The Lost Leader Comments
Rating: ★2.8
Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat---
Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us,
Lost all the others she lets us devote;
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7/23/2025 2:57:41 PM # 1.0.0
A magnificent judgment of a fallen leader, who finally will be forgiven by God. Apply the poem to Richard Nixon and Watergate. 'Just for a handful of silver he left us'-like Judas. 'Let him never come back to us/ There would be doubt, hesitation and pain'.