Ode to a mean man

Poem attacks Frank Gavan, a La Fayette tailor, as a flatterer, cheat and defrauder of his workmen. Poem attacks Frank Gavan, a La Fayette tailor, as a flatterer, cheat and defrauder of his workmen. Poetry. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because the subject of the poem is ridiculed for calling Grant "Elias," probably referring to Ulysses S. Grant.