Raving, red-eyed, scarred and seared;

To a bran-new sensation tune sung for thee,

With red lips, white teeth, underhung for thee,

Beauty begrimed and blood-smeared!

Vice-jawed, retractile, snub-snouted—

Tushes for fists swift to smite;

Round by round felled but not routed,

Rare of bark, bitter of bite!

If with grapplings and pluckings asunder—

If with throat-thirst for worry unslaked—