/// Give it up for the practical Swedes,
who know just what a lawmaker needs.
Gunnar Wennerberg’s “flash,”
(check his walrus mustache),
doesn’t hint he’s a poet who reads.
/// Shown in old age he looks angry here.
One might think he was hard and severe.
But the man was admired
and his counsel desired
all throughout his long varied career.
/// Give it up for the practical Swedes,
who know just what a lawmaker needs.
Gunnar Wennerberg’s “flash,”
(check his walrus mustache),
doesn’t hint he’s a poet who reads.
/// Shown in old age he looks angry here.
One might think he was hard and severe.
But the man was admired
and his counsel desired
all throughout his long varied career.