To those with fiery colors dight or with fair figures traced:

Those that high as liver-pads and chest-protectors serve,

While others proudly sweep away in a substomachic curve,

But the grandest thing in waistcoats in the streets in this great and wondrous west

Is that which folks are wont to call the Will J. Davis vest!

This paragon of comeliness is cut nor low nor high

But just enough of both to show a bright imported tie:

Bound neatly with the choicest silks its lappets wave-like roll,

While a watch-chain dangles sprucely from the proper buttonhole

And a certain sensuous languor is ineffably expressed