A Jack-at-All-Views + 

So, Estee, you are still alive! I thought + 

That you had died and were a blessed ghost. + 

I know at least your coffin once was bought + 

With Railroad money; and ’twas said by most + 

Historians that Stanford made a boast + 

The seller “threw you in.” That goes for naught⁠— + 

Man takes delight in fancy’s fine inventions, + 

And woman too, ’tis said, if they are French ones. + 

Do you remember, Estee⁠—ah, ’twas long + 

And long ago!⁠—how fierce you grew and hot + 

When anything impeded the straight, strong, + 

Wild sweep of the great billow you had got + 

Atop of, like a swimmer bold? Great Scott! + 

How fine your wavemanship! How loud your song + 

Of “Down with railroads!” When the wave subsided + 

And left you stranded you were much divided. + 

Then for a time you were content to wade + 

The waters of the “robber barons’ ” moat. + 

To fetch, and carry was your humble trade, + 

And ferry Stanford over in a boat, + 

Well paid if he bestowed the kindly groat + 

And spoke you fair and called you pretty maid. + 

And when his stomach seemed a bit unsteady + 

You got your serviceable basin ready. + 

Strange man! how odd to see you, smug and spruce, + 

There at Chicago, burrowed in a Chair, + 

Not made to measure and a deal too loose, + 

And see you lift your little arm and swear + 

Democracy shall be no more! If it’s a fair + 

And civil question, and not too abstruse, + 

Were you elected as a “robber baron,” + 

Or as a Communist whose teeth had hair on? + 