John Greenleaf Whittier's bitter poem about Daniel Webster provides us with a fitting epitaph 172 years later for Bill Bennett's reputation:
So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
Forevermore!
.....
Then, pay the reverence of old days
To his dead fame;
Walk backward, with averted gaz…
John Greenleaf Whittier's bitter poem about Daniel Webster provides us with a fitting epitaph 172 years later for Bill Bennett's reputation:
So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
Forevermore!
.....
Then, pay the reverence of old days
To his dead fame;
Walk backward, with averted gaze,
And hide the shame!
I'm sorry you were taken in by him, Charlie. Some of us were lucky enough to realize that he was a charlatan from his first days at Boston University. The later revelation that he was a pathological gambler simply confirmed our suspicions about his character or lack thereof.
John Greenleaf Whittier's bitter poem about Daniel Webster provides us with a fitting epitaph 172 years later for Bill Bennett's reputation:
So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
Forevermore!
.....
Then, pay the reverence of old days
To his dead fame;
Walk backward, with averted gaze,
And hide the shame!
I'm sorry you were taken in by him, Charlie. Some of us were lucky enough to realize that he was a charlatan from his first days at Boston University. The later revelation that he was a pathological gambler simply confirmed our suspicions about his character or lack thereof.