And in each loft I saw a thousand men,
And women, too, and children, too, I saw.
And all around arose a deaf’ning roar—
The roaring of machines o’er which were bent
The toilers toiling at their tiresome task.
And as I stood and gazed upon this scene
I wondered why it was—I wondered why....
I went into a house of gilded halls,
And in each hall there shone a thousand lights,
And many men and women also shone.