The Outlaw

Epigrammata LVI

From John Hancock on / a nation of pirates comes / to its final form

For a hundred years or more
Made the outlaw hero of yore
The gangster, the criminal often as well
To subvert the moral culture was swell
With the WASP as a willing foe
This all is clear, this we all know
And drank the poison, clear and free;
But what happens when it is clear to see
The outlaw is their class enemy--?