What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to…

Listening to the strains of genuine negro ragtime, brokers forget their cares.

Good times coming. Good times have come.

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

The scene was changed. It was a bark that slowly held its way, And o'er its lee the coast of France in the light of evening lay; And on its deck a lady sat, who gazed with tearful eyes Upon the fast receding hills that dim and distant rise.

So All is diff’rent, and yet All is One.

What great Effects from slender Causes flow!