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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

Vote for Me

Vote for Me.

"Say, papa, how are you going to vote ?"
'Twas a child's bright word, and he could not note
How the red blood mantled his father's face,
As he clasped the wee one in close embrace;
But he prattled on in his childish glee,
"Say, papa, why won't you vote for me ?"

Out of the door strode the father fast,
And never a glance behind him cast,
As on to his place at the polls he went;
But the words the boy spoke were surely meant
By God above to follow him there,
For they haunted his steps like a mother's prayer.
"Vote for me, papa," the bells rang out;"
Vote for me," sounded the schoolboy's shout;
"Vote for me," came from the rum-seller's door
In the oaths ho had never thus heard before;
At last with a smile he whispered low,
"If I vote for my boy I can vote only No"

Katherine L. Stevenson