Workingmen believed <br />He busted trusts, <br />And put his picture in their windows. <br />'What he'd have done in France!' <br />They said. <br />Perhaps he would-- <br />He could have died <br />Perhaps, <br />Though generals rarely die except in bed, <br />As he did finally. <br />And all the legends that he started in his life <br />Live on and prosper, <br />Unhampered now by his existence.<br /><br />Ernest Hemingway<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/roosevelt-2/
