Insurers can claim (if you'll only reflect)

No rights which it is not our right to reject;

No rights which the people are bound to respect.

They must smile and be patient, and out with their purses,

And take what we give them, our kicks or our curses;

Bow down to the cow with the old crumpled horn

That kicked over the lamp that set fire to the barn

That caused the Great Fire in Chicago!"

THIS is Insurance. Now, satire, farewell!

For the woes which the fire-stricken city befel,