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Friday, September 30, 2005

SING ME A SONG



A majority on American University's Board of Trustees has concluded that suspended President Benjamin Ladner must be replaced, according to two sources close to the board.

Washington Post, September 30, 2005






Sing me a song of a ladner that’s gone:
Say, could it really be true?
Merry of money roughshod he rode
Over a poor AU.

Trustees, alumni, and students
Fondly remember how
The glory of truth would glow in its soul.
Where is that glory now?

Sing me a song of a ladner that’s gone:
Say, could it really be so?
Heedless he ran through the heart of them all
And now they have told him to go.

Give them again all that he took!
Give them the sun that shone!
Give them the eyes, give them the soul,
Give them the good that's gone!

Sing me a song of a ladner that’s gone,
Say, could it really be true?
Merry of money all roughshod he rode
Over a poor AU.

Billow and breeze, islands and seas,
Mountains of rain and sun,
All that was good, all that was fair,
Will soon once again be done.