Show AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A i WHITE HOUSE PA K LOB Soon March will toll the knell of parting Hayes The yean of fraud will have a doleful end And ho and his their solitary ways Homo to Ohio mournfully will wend Savo that perchance some scions of the stock In far positions may have taken root Until their headUbe brought to Garfields block Or lifted on the toe ConklingB boot Back in Fremont whence he should o neer have come Remote from public haunts his life will be The voice of honest praise will still be dumb And he may court an earned obscurity The fruits of forgery result of crime And all that made a swindled people bleed Await alike th inevitable time Tho paths of fraud to dark damnation lead No more for him will consciences bo wrung No moro for him will rascals break the law Ne more for him will robberj go unhung No moro will ho anothers salary draw |