The Poor Voter on Election Day

Day 1,312, 13:20 • Published in Canada Canada • by Wally Cleaver


The Poor Voter on Election Day ~ by John Greenleaf Whittier

The proudest now is but my peer,
The highest not more high;
To-day, of all the weary year,
A king of men am I.
To-day alike are great and small,
The nameless and the known
My palace is the people’s hall,
The ballot-box my throne!

Who serves to-day upon the list
Beside the served shall stand;
Alike the brown and wrinkled fist,
The gloved and dainty hand!
The rich is level with the poor,
The weak is strong to-day;
And sleekest broadcloth counts no more
Than homespun frock of gray.

To-day let pomp and vain pretence
My stubborn right abide;
I set a plain man’s common sense
Against the pedant’s pride.
To-day shall simple manhood try
The strength of gold and land
The wide world has not wealth to buy
The power in my right hand!

While there’s a grief to seek redress,
Or balance to adjust,
Where weighs our living manhood less
Than Mammon’s vilest dust, —
While there’s a right to need my vote
A wrong to sweep away,
Up! clouted knee and ragged coat!
A man’s a man to-day!


Tomorrow each citizen of eCanada will be on an equal level. We will all have the power to elect officials for next Congressional term. I personally will be running in Quebec again this term. I want to thank all of those that voted for me last month. It has been a difficult month, but I have learned a lot and look forward to serving eCanada again.


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