To a Friend on His Election to the Jersey City Board of Education

Music: Salve Regina. By Arnolt Schlick. Sequenced by David Cooke.

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Congratulations on your victory Over those who'd labor in your stead. Now that you have won, the road ahead Gives pause: for what good soul-elect can be Respondent to such need? Or happily Attendant on such pain? It's often said That power corrupts, but your audacious tread Unheard might leave its footprints on the sea. Little can one do, yet much is asked As life responds to policy unfazed, Taking, just perhaps, a hopeful turn. Intending good, one is widely tasked, Open to rebuke, and rarely praised, Needing faith to change, as one must learn, Scenes on which all helpless long have gazed.