Guest Editor Frost* or Poetry This year the Engush-speaking world celebrates an inauguration and a coronation. An elected i resident takes th rains of pow er : an hereditary Queen receive the symbols of power. One event is clean-cut prose: the other is rich-dyed poetry. One emphasizes the transfer of responsibility to new hands: 'he other dramatizes the continuing heritage from an ancient past. Yet in both cases the actual source of power lies in the i>eople. acting through representative in stitutions. free elections, demo cratic procedures established by law under a written or unwritten constitution. In both cases the genius of democracy demonstrates itself in the adaption of old wis

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