Stevens Government

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    Poetry
    Exceeding music must take the place
    Of empty heaven and its hymns....
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.
    William Cobbett (1762–1835)