CANTO XI - Not by Smith’s Hand Hidden
It is easy to conceive that, according to the power of the
legislator, it destroys for its own profit, and in different degrees
amongst the rest of the community, personal independence
by slavery, liberty by oppression, and property by plunder.
Claude Frédéric Bastiat (economist, 1801-1850)
The Bastiat Collection (book)
White sparks spangle by the colliding wrangles
Iron and steel, hot or not, melded to feel as one
Welded till done, thus to congeal in the molted cum
Twain honed and plumbed, summed by wrench and bolt
By speculative blokes then operative folks so fitly
Ergo backers and workers, tacking, perking accordingly
Per strings of brainstorms of new things newfangled
Barring stinging rainstorms, impinging free fandangos
With perplexities political by pompous politicos
Thus covered pipe-dreams per their overripe schemes
Exacting ataxias by effectuating propagandas
Wherever each memoranda, as a clever literary lever
Triggering the riggings of economy’s ill summary
Due to furtive ciphers convening `low capitol dome
Spoiling and plundering the capital in homes
Foiling and encumbering goods and labor to roam
Hence the isms by legal protection are the schisms
Besetting asunder the economic harmonies
O the wonder synergistic by interests individualistic
Not by Smith’s hand hidden, rather, self-driven
Given the sovereign preferences of each, to teach
Then guide the entrepreneurial ride, rise, and fall
It is easy to conceive that, according to the power of the
legislator, it destroys for its own profit, and in different degrees
amongst the rest of the community, personal independence
by slavery, liberty by oppression, and property by plunder.
Claude Frédéric Bastiat (economist, 1801-1850)
The Bastiat Collection (book)
White sparks spangle by the colliding wrangles
Iron and steel, hot or not, melded to feel as one
Welded till done, thus to congeal in the molted cum
Twain honed and plumbed, summed by wrench and bolt
By speculative blokes then operative folks so fitly
Ergo backers and workers, tacking, perking accordingly
Per strings of brainstorms of new things newfangled
Barring stinging rainstorms, impinging free fandangos
With perplexities political by pompous politicos
Thus covered pipe-dreams per their overripe schemes
Exacting ataxias by effectuating propagandas
Wherever each memoranda, as a clever literary lever
Triggering the riggings of economy’s ill summary
Due to furtive ciphers convening `low capitol dome
Spoiling and plundering the capital in homes
Foiling and encumbering goods and labor to roam
Hence the isms by legal protection are the schisms
Besetting asunder the economic harmonies
O the wonder synergistic by interests individualistic
Not by Smith’s hand hidden, rather, self-driven
Given the sovereign preferences of each, to teach
Then guide the entrepreneurial ride, rise, and fall
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