And jest holds out in his two hands
As warm a heart as ever beat
Betwixt here and the Jedgment Seat.
The picturesque genius, Capt. Jack Crawford, renowned as “The Poet-Scout,” wrote of Debs:
The same old pard of long ago,
The whole-souled ’Gene I used to know,
With the love of Truth writ on Justice’s scroll,
With a woman’s heart and a warrior’s soul.
At a reception given to Debs by the Denver Press Club Walter Juan Davis recited these lines, written for the occasion:
DEBS.