- can you see , by the dawn 's early light , '' and lucy was singing , holding his hand , crying again , and others were crying , most of them were crying , crying for what was lost and bitter , the runaway american dream , chrome-wheeled , fuel-injected , and stepping out over the line , and suddenly his memory was not of rita , dead in the tent , but of he and his mother at yankee stadium - it was september 29 , the yankees were only a game and a half behind the red sox , and all things were still possible .