Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan

"Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan" is a lyric poem by American poet Vachel Lindsay.^[1] Written in August 1919, the poem recounts the dramatic rise and fall of U.S. presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan during the 1896 presidential campaign.^[2] The work was first published in The Sun, a New York City newspaper, and later included in Lindsay's 1920 collection The Golden Whales of California And Other Rhymes in the American Language.^[3] The poem focuses upon the initial flowering of hope and later widespread despair among Bryan's ardent supporters throughout the electoral vicissitudes of the campaign.