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DRAMATIS PERSONAE	A
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QUICK	B
DE YOUNG a Brother to Mushrooms	C
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DEAD	D
SWIFT an Heirloom	E
ESTEE a Relic	B
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IMMORTALS	F
THE SPIRIT OF BROKEN HOPES THE AUTHOR	G
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MISCELLANEOUS	H
A TROUPE OF COFFINS THE MOON VARIOUS COLORED FIRES	I
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Scene The Political Graveyard at Bone Mountain	J
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DE YOUNG	K
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This is the spot agreed upon Here rest	L
The sainted statesman who upon the field	M
Of honor have at various times laid down	N
Their own and ended ignominious	H
Their lives political About me lo	O
Their silent headstones gilded by the moon	P
Half full and near her setting midnight Hark	Q
Through the white mists of this portentous night	R
Which throng in moving shapes about my way	A
As they were ghosts of candidates I've slain	S
To fray their murderer my open ear	T
Spacious to maw the noises of the world	U
Engulfs a footstep	V
Enter Estee from his tomb	E
Ah 'tis he my foe	O
True to appointment and so here we fight	R
Though truly 'twas my firm belief that he	W
Would send regrets or I had not been here	T
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ESTEE	W
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O moon that hast so oft surprised the deeds	X
Whereby I rose to greatness tricksy orb	Y
The type and symbol of my politics	Z
Now draw my ebbing fortunes to their flood	A2
As by the magic of a poultice boils	B2
That burn ambitions with defeated fires	I
Are lifted into eminence	C2
Sees De Young	K
What you	D2
Faith if I had suspected you would come	E2
From the fair world of politics wherein	F2
So lately you were whelped and which alas	G2
I vainly to revisit strive though still	H2
Rapped on the rotting head and bidden sleep	I2
Till Resurrection's morn if I had thought	J2
You would accept the challenge that I flung	K
I would have seen you damned ere I came forth	K2
In the night air shroud clad and shivering	L2
To fight so mean a thing But since you're here	T
Draw and defend yourself By gad we'll see	W
Who'll be Postmaster General	M2
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DE YOUNG	K
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We will	H2
I'll fight for I am lame with any blue	D2
And redolent remain that dares aspire	N2
To wreck the Grand Old Grandson's cabinet	O2
Here's at you nosegay	K
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They draw tongues and are about to fight when from an	P2
adjacent whited sepulcher enter Swift	Q2
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SWIFT	Q2
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Hold put up your tongues	R2
Within the confines of this sacred spot	S2
Broods such a holy calm as none may break	K
By clash of weapons without sacrilege	T2
Beats down their tongues with a bone	U2
Madmen what profits it For though you fought	J2
With such heroic skill that both survived	V2
Yet neither should achieve the prize for I	W2
Would wrest it from him Let us not contend	X2
But friendliwise by stipulation fix	Z
A slate for mutual advantage Why	W2
Having the pick and choice of seats should we	W
Forego them all but one Nay we'll take three	W
And part them so among us that to each	Y2
Shall fall the fittest to his powers In brief	Z2
Let us establish a Portfolio Trust	A3
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ESTEE	W
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Agreed	B3
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DE YOUNG	K
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Aye truly 'tis a greed and one	J
The offices imperfectly will sate	C3
But I'll stand in	F2
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SWIFT	Q2
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Well so 'tis understood	D3
As you're the junior member of the Trust	A3
Politically younger and undead	A3
Speak Michael what portfolio do you choose	E3
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DE YOUNG	K
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I've thought the Postal service best would serve	F3
My interest but since I have my pick	K
I'll take the War Department It is known	U2
Throughout the world from Market street to Pine	G3
For a Chicago journal told the tale	H3
How in this hand I lately took my life	I3
And marched against great Buckley thundering	K
My mandate that he count the ballots fair	J3
Earth heard and shrank to half her size Yon moon	P
Which rivaled then a liver's whiteness paused	A3
That night at Butchertown and daubed her face	K3
With sheep's blood Then my serried rank I drew	D2
Back to my stronghold without loss To mark	K
My care in saving human life and limb	L3
The Peace Society bestowed on me	W
Its leather medal and the title too	D2
Of Colonel Yes my genius is for war Good land	A3
I naturally dote on a brass band	A3
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Sings	M3
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O give me a life on the tented field	A3
Where the cannon roar and ring	K
Where the flag floats free and the foemen yield	A3
And bleed as the bullets sing	K
But be it not mine to wage the fray	A
Where matters are ordered the other way	A
For that is a different thing	K
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O give me a life in the fierce campaign	S
Let it be the life of my foe	O
I'd rather fall upon him than the plain	S
That service I'd fain forego	O
O a warrior's life is fine and free	W
But a warrior's death ah me ah me	W
That's a different thing you know	O
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ESTEE	W
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Some claim I might myself advance to that	A3
Portfolio When Rebellion raised its head	A3
And you my friends stayed meekly in your shirts	N3
I marched with banners to the party stump	O3
Spat on my hands made faces fierce as death	P3
Shook my two fists at once and introduced	A3
Brave resolutions terrible to read	A3
Nay only recently as you do know	O
I conquered Treason by the word of mouth	Q3
And slew with Samson's weapon the whole South	Q3
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SWIFT	A3
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You once fought Stanford too	D2
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ESTEE	W
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Enough of that	A3
Give me the Interior and I'll devote	A3
My mind to agriculture and improve	R3
The breed of cabbages especially	W
The Brassica Celeritatis named	A3
For you because in days of long ago	O
You sold it at your market stall and faith	S3
'Tis said you were an honest huckster then	T3
I'll be Attorney General if you	D2
Prefer for know I am a lawyer too	D2
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SWIFT	A3
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I never have heard that did you De Young	K
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DE YOUNG	K
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Never so help me And I swear I've heard	A3
A score of Judges say that he is not	A3
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SWIFT to Estee	W
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You take the Interior I might aspire	N2
To military station too for once	C2
I led my party into Pixley's camp	U3
And he paroled me I defended too	D2
The State of Oregon against the sharp	V3
And bloody tooth of the Australian sheep	I2
But I've an aptitude exceeding neat	A3
For bloodless battles of diplomacy	W
My cobweb treaty of Exclusion once	C2
Through which a hundred thousand coolies sailed	A3
Was much admired but most by Colonel Bee	W
Though born a tinker I'm a diplomat	A3
From old Missouri and I ha what's that	A3
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Exit Moon Enter Blue Lights on all the tombs and a circle of Red Fire on the grass in the center the Spirit of Broken Hopes and round about a Troupe of Coffins dancing and singing	K
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CHORUS OF COFFINS	W3
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Two bodies dead and one alive	X3
Yo ho merrily all	Y3
Now for boodle strain and strive	X3
Buzzards all a warble O	O
Prophets three agape for bread	A3
Raven with a stone instead	A3
Providential raven	J
Judges two and Colonel one	J
Run run rustics run	J
But it's O the pig is shaven	J
And oily oily all	Y3
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Exeunt Coffins dancing The Spirit of Broken Hopes advances solemnly pointing at each of the Three Worthies in turn	Z3
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SPIRIT OF BROKEN HOPES	A4
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Governor Governor editor man	P2
Rusty musty spick and span	P2
Harlequin harridan dicky dout	A3
Demagogue charlatan o u t OUT	A3
De Young falls and sleeps	B4
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Antimonopoler diplomat	A3
Railroad lackey political rat	A3
One two three SCAT	A3
Swift falls and sleeps	B4
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Boycotting chin worker working to woo	D2
Fortune the fickle to smile upon you	D2
Jo coated acrobat shuttle cock SHOO	D2
Estee falls and sleeps	B4
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Now they lie in slumber sweet	A3
Now the charm is all complete	A3
Hasten I with flying feet	A3
Where beyond the further sea	W
A babe upon its mother's knee	W
Is gazing into skies afar	C4
And crying for a golden star	C4
I'll drag a cloud across the blue	D2
And break that infant's heart in two	D2
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Exeunt the Spirit of Broken Hopes and the Red and Blue Fires Re enter Moon	P
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ESTEE waking	K
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Why this is strange I dreamed I know not what	A3
It seemed that certain apparitions were	G
Which sang uncanny words significant	A3
And yet ambiguous half understood	A3
Portending evil and an awful spook	K
Even as I stood with my accomplices	D4
Counted me out as children do in play	A
Is that you Mike	K
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DE YOUNG waking	K
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It was	E4
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SWIFT waking	K
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Am I all that	A3
Then I'll reform my ways	F4
Reforms his ways	F4
Ah had I known	U2
How sweet it is to be an honest man	P2
I never would have stooped to turn my coat	A3
For public favor as chameleons take	K
The hue as near as they can judge of that	A3
Supporting them Henceforth I'll buy	W2
With money all the offices I need	A3
And know the pleasure of an honest l	G4