[Albion Wilde]

Brilliant!

[poconopundit]

Thanks, Albion and Doughtyone.  Don't know how the Liberty Bell entered my consciousness.  Perhaps a ghost from historic Philadelphia (that I visited many years ago) whispered out from a dark alley of brain.

I would make one word change -- substituting "fiery" for "dogged" to suggest the Sun. We refer to the "dog days" of summer as the hottest of the season, but that sounds more lethargic.

Shall I compare Free Republic to a summer’s day?
Thy Rascal Writers are more fiery and intemperate.
Rough winds do swirl the Snowflakes of January,
And November’s lease on Victory hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of Fake News shines,
And often is Freedom’s complexion dimmed;
And every Founding Fathers’ Creed sometime declines,
By Fraud, or Corruption’s changing course, untrimmed;
But FR’s eternal commentary shall not fade,
Nor Patriots lose possession of the Rights they’re ow’st,
Nor shall Censorship brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
While thy eternal posts to Freedom cause the Internet to Shake.

So long as Self-Reliance breathes, and Justice Sings.
So long as Freepers speak defiantly, the Liberty Bell Rings.

Shakespeare