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...wanted to compare thee to a prophet, but prophets told lies...
...wanted to compare thee to the ocean, but ships can run aground on hidden reefs in the ocean...
...wanted to compare thee to the mountain, but the summit of every mountain can be seen...
...wanted to compare thee to the moon, but the moon only shines at night...
George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart wrote the book; Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote the songs. Nevertheless, the combination seems sadly uninspired. "Of Thee I Sing" should have remained a final expression; "I'd Rather Be Right" has very little to add to the former's artistic trenchaney. The new work is a highly specific representation of the present administration, with ridicule hurled at everybody in it. Jim Farley, Henry Morgenthau, and Madame Secretary Perkins are undoubtedly fit subjects for the lampooner's art, and the caricatures of them are skillfully drawn. But the President is scarcely touched when...