Where the throng of fashion flaunts,

Where, in dark unwholesome haunts,

Lurks a darker race, to prowl

Desert streets when night doth scowl,

Desert stoney streets, and bare,

’Neath a strange electric glare,

Fiery eyed to track them down,

Homeless on the heartless town.

Ah! could early man, or late,

Set his ways, or Nature’s, straight,