| Hamilton Fish Armstrong, ed. The Book of New York Verse. 1917. | | | | Election Returns at Tammany Hall, 1819 (extract from The State Triumvirate) | | By Gulian Crommelin Verplanck |
| | | THE TIME next May—the place, suppose | |
| Where, when in town, his saintship goes; | |
| Bad news flows in—a sullen gloom | |
| O’erspreads each face that crowds the room. | |
| While sure forebodings fill the breast, | 5 |
| In vain, they strive to hope the best; | |
| Before them spread, returns are seen, | |
| Of votes from Ulster, Orange, Greene. | |
| Numbers in each, before unknown, | |
| Of public feeling, mark the tone— | 10 |
| Gilbert and Miller look, and groan. | |
| But one whose hopes not yet are fled, | |
| Will know how other counties sped; | |
| “Queens? Richmond?—gone!—nay, ask no more! | |
| “And Rockland?—worse than e’er before! | 15 |
| “Westchester?—all our hopes has crossed! | |
| “But Dutchess?—Dutchess too is lost!!” | |
| O-k-y had said it promised well, | |
| But some are bought who cannot sell! | |
| Now marks the muse in ev’ry face. | 20 |
| What varied tunes the passions trace; | |
| Some sink in sullen mute despair, | |
| Some bite the lip, or rend the hair— | |
| One raves aloud, or curses flings | |
| On Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Kings. | 25 | | | |
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