Everywhere listening to my yawp, and glad whenever they hear it;

Everywhere saying, say it, Walt, we believe it:

Everywhere, everywhere.

From Diversions of the Echo Club, by Bayard Taylor.


A Parody from San Francisco.

I dump my soul and seek repose;

I lay oft in the shadow of the summer leaves and smoke Spanish;

I dump my soul and lay off—you’d better believe it.

I am the poet of filibusters, the poet of Kinney;[130]