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 The men that are marred and the maids that are sold— Inarticulate masses promiscuously jumbled And crushed 'neath their Juggernaut idol of gold.

Lost lives of great cities bespattered and tumbled, Black rags the rain soaks, the wind whips like a knout, Were crouched in the streets there, and o'er them nigh stumbled

A swarm of light maids as they tripped to some rout. The silk of their raiment voluptuously hisses And flaps o'er the flags as loud laughing they flout

The wine-maddened men they ne'er satiate with kisses For the pearls and the diamonds that make them more fair, For the flash of large jewels that fire them with blisses,