Framed with scarlet, blankly rotund girls.

Here a burly cattle-raiser walks

With the grace of wind-swept prairie grass.

Behind him steps a slender clerk

Tendering his sprightly stridency

To the stolid, doll-like girl beside him.

At his side a heavy youth

Dully stands beneath his swaggering mask;

And a smiling man in black and white

Walks, like some Pierrot grown middle-aged.