Source, in full
"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