With the pitch of his strenuous song

That shrieks for the god or the goddess of Right!

Or that lashes the legions of Wrong

With a vicious and venomous thong—

By Crumbs!

With a knotted and merciless thong!

He points, with the pointer of arrogant rhyme,

To the pathway of Wealth and Renown,

Where weary fools falter and fall, as they climb

To their Goal, that so grimly looks down