History & Politics
The Ballot
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
History & Politics
A WEAPON that comes down as still
As snowflakes fall upon the sod;
But executes a freeman’s will,
As lightning does the will of God,
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Pierpont, John. “The Ballot.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/pierpont/18/.
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Pierpont, John. “The Ballot.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/pierpont/18/.
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