Benjamin F. Harrison

Defeated! Nay, it cannot be;

     Not by a vote of common sense,

     For people of intelligence,

Would not defeat man such as he,

But swell his great plurality.

Deluged then, must we call it? Yea;

     Not swept aside as man to man,

     For in all that he leads the van.

But thrust by blindness of to day.

He, a dam of timbers clear and sound,

Deep-bedded, staunch, in solid ground,

     But in the storm of politics,

     Midst shining gold and brazen tricks,

By muddy torrents swept away.

Nov. 11, 1892

                   (original crossed out in book)