<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342970" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Night Of Election</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O venerable patriot, I pray<br>Stand not here coatless; at the break of day<br>We'll know the grand result-and even now<br>The eastern sky is faintly touched with gray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It ill befits thine age's hoary crown<br>This rude environment of rogue and clown,<br>Who, as the lying bulletins appear,<br>With drunken cries incarnadine the town.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But if with noble zeal you stay to note<br>The outcome of your patriotic vote<br>For Blaine, or Cleveland, and your native land,<br>Take-and God bless you!-take my overcoat.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Done, pard-and mighty white of you. And now<br>guess the country'll keep the trail somehow.<br>I aint allowed to vote, the Warden said,<br>But whacked my coat up on old Stanislow.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342970" data-title="The Night Of Election de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="'O venerable patriot, I pray Stand not here coatless; at the break of day We'll know the grand result-and even now The eastern sky is faintly touched with gray. 'It ill befits thine age's hoary crown This rude environment of rogue and clown, Who,..."></div> </div> </div>

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