When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to buy, sell, and short them,

When I sitting heard the trader where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,

Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,

Sat down at my trading station, and from time to time,

Look’d up in perfect silence at the markets.