The bulls and bears together drew
      From Jauncey Court and New Street Alley,
    As erst, if pastorals be true,
      Came beasts from every wooded valley;
    And random passers stayed to list,—­
      A boxer AEgon, rough and merry,
    A Broadway Daphnis, on his tryst
      With Nais at the Brooklyn Ferry.

    A one-eyed Cyclops halted long
      In tattered cloak of army pattern,
    And Galatea joined the throng,—­
      A blowsy apple-vending slattern;
    While old Silenus staggered out
      From some new-fangled lunch-house handy,
    And bade the piper, with a shout,
      To strike up Yankee Doodle Dandy!

    A newsboy and a peanut-girl
      Like little Fauns began to caper;
    His hair was all in tangled curl,
      Her tawny legs were bare and taper;
    And still the gathering larger grew,
      And gave its pence and crowded nigher,
    While aye the shepherd-minstrel blew
      His pipe, and struck the gamut higher.

    O heart of Nature, beating still
      With throbs her vernal passion taught her,—­
    Even here, as on the vine-clad hill,
      Or by the Arethusan water! 
    New forms may fold the speech, new lands
      Arise within these ocean-portals,
    But Music waves eternal wands,—­
      Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

    So thought I,—­but among us trod
      A man in blue, with legal baton,
    And scoffed the vagrant demigod,
      And pushed him from the step I sat on. 
    Doubting I mused upon the cry,
      “Great Pan is dead!”—­and all the people
    Went on their ways:—­and clear and high
      The quarter sounded from the steeple.

NOTES

=Wall Street=:—­An old street in New York faced by the Stock Exchange and the offices of the wealthiest bankers and brokers.

=the Treasury=:—­The Sub-Treasury Building.

=last quotations=:—­The latest information on stock values given out before the Stock Exchange closes.

=Trinity=:—­The famous old church that stands at the head of Wall Street.

=curbstone war=:—­The clamorous quoting, auctioning, and bidding of stock out on the street curb, where the “curb brokers”—­brokers who do not have seats on the Stock Exchange—­do business.

=sweet-do-nothing=:—­A translation of an Italian expression, dolce far niente.

=Sicilians=:—­Theocritus (3rd century before Christ), the Greek pastoral poet, wrote of the happy life of the shepherds and shepherdesses in Sicily.

=Doric pillar=:—­A heavy marble pillar, such as was used in the architecture of the Dorians in Greece.

=Pan’s pipe=:—­Pan was the Greek god of shepherds, and patron of fishing and hunting.  He is represented as having the head and body of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat.  It was said that he invented the shepherd’s pipe or flute, which he made from reeds plucked on the bank of a stream.