Half a century ago an astonishingly unexpected President was being inaugurated.
So many firsts were made with his election: age, wealth, religion, family background— and he had a poet at the podium with him.
Well, this time it ain’t Kennedy; both Robert Frost and Rudyard Kipling are gone, and what’s been forgotten of their legacies and honor in the meanwhile makes civilization shudder.
(For the Kipling original, go here)