"Vulgar of manner, overfed, Overdressed and underbred; Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, Rude by day and lewd by night; Bedwarfed the man, o'ergrown the brute, Ruled by Jew and prostitute; Purple-robed and pauper-clad, Raving, rotting, money-mad; A squirming herd in Mammon's mesh, A wilderness of human flesh; Crazed with avarice, lust, and rum, New York, thy name's Delirium."
— Byron R. Newton

January 1, 1970

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"Owed to New York" (1906). Attributed to Newton in Hazel Felleman (ed.) The Best Loved Poems of the American People (Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1936) p. 638, and dated in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 11th ed. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co, 1938) p. 759. A slightly different version quoted, unattributed, in William Salisbury, The American Emperor: A Novel (New York: The Tabard Inn Press, 1913) bk. 4, ch. 3, p. 214: — Dwarfed the man, enlarged the brute, — Raving, rioting, ... — Mi