{"id":7079,"date":"2004-11-02T10:46:48","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T17:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/11\/02\/the-poor-voter-on-election-day.html"},"modified":"2004-11-02T10:46:48","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T17:46:48","slug":"the_poor_voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/02\/the_poor_voter.html","title":{"rendered":"“The Poor Voter on Election Day”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A poem<\/a> by John Greenleaf Whittier<\/a> (1848) (as heard<\/a> on NPR’s Morning Edition today):<\/p>\n

The proudest now is but my peer,
\nThe highest not more high;
\nTo-day, of all the weary year,
\nA king of men am I.
\nTo-day, alike are great and small,
\nThe nameless and the known;
\nMy palace is the people’s hall,
\nThe ballot-box my throne!<\/em><\/p>\n

Who serves to-day upon the list
\nBeside the served shall stand;
\nAlike the brown and wrinkled fist,
\nThe gloved and dainty hand!
\nThe rich is level with the poor,
\nThe weak is strong to-day;
\nAnd sleekest broadcloth counts no more
\nThan homespun frock of gray.<\/em><\/p>\n

To-day let pomp and vain pretence
\nMy stubborn right abide;
\nI set a plain man’s common sense
\nAgainst the pedant’s pride.
\nTo-day shall simple manhood try
\nThe strength of gold and land;
\nThe wide world has not wealth to buy
\nThe power in my right hand!<\/em><\/p>\n

While there’s a grief to seek redress,
\nOr balance to adjust,
\nWhere weighs our living manhood less
\nThan Mammon’s vilest dust,–
\nWhile there’s a right to need my vote,
\nA wrong to sweep away,
\nUp! clouted knee and ragged coat
\nA man’s a man to-day.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (1848) (as heard on NPR’s Morning Edition today): The proudest now is but my peer, The highest not more high; To-day, of all the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2004"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18904,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/unblogged-bits-tue-12-oct-10-2331.html","url_meta":{"origin":7079,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 12-Oct-10 2331)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Oct-10 11:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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