To an Aspirant + 

What! you a Senator?⁠—you, Mike de Young? + 

Still reeking of the gutter whence you sprung? + 

Sir, if all Senators were such as you⁠— + 

Their hands so slender and so crimson too + 

(Shaped to the pocket for commercial work, + 

For literary, fitted to the dirk)⁠— + 

So black their hearts, so lily-white their livers⁠— + 

The toga’s touch would give a man the shivers! + 