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.

"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, ... | Millions with a single goal— Mammon's herd, without a soul | Crazed by avarice, ...