To a very Tow’r of Babel,
At the Knickerbocker Club!
O my Children, we no longer are respected!
’Tis a fact we older fellows must deplore,
Whose opinions and whose judgments are neglected,
As they never were before.
We may tender good advice to our descendants;
We may offer them our money, if we will;
Lo, the one shall be forsaken,
And the other shall be taken