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Tell me, was Altgeld elected Governor?
For when the returns began to come in / And Cleveland was sweeping the East, / It was too much for you, poor old heart, / Who had striven for democracy / In the long, long years of defeat.
And like a watch that is worn / I felt you growing slower until you stopped.
Tell me, was Altgeld elected, / And what did he do?
Did they bring his head on a platter to a dancer, / Or did he triumph for the people?
For when I saw him / And took his hand, / The child-like blueness of his eyes / Moved me to tears, / And there was an air of eternity about him, / Like the cold, clear light that rests at dawn / On the hills!