III.

Here a smart Syndicate shall set you up,

Here, where we slaughter swine as Rome did slaves,

(A sanguine carnival of sausage-meat),

Here, where Chicago belles their braided hair

Pile in Greek knots,—to gaze on brawn and gristle!

Here, where in gilded cars the pork-kings loll,

Driven Mammon-like unto their marble homes,

Lit by the wan light of the electric arc,

Swift-wheeled and silent-tyred o'er wood or stone.