Mr. Steinke is thinking, I believe, of The Congo, by the American
"jazz poet" Vachel Lindsay, who was roughly a contemporary of
Kipling's (Lindsay 1879 - 1931).
The text of this powerful poem can be found at:
http://199.233.193.1/cybereng/poetry/poems/congo.html
Brian Kappler
Montreal
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