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Rh You neighbor of the Danube! You working-man of the Rhine, the Elbe, or the
 * Weser! you working-woman too!

You Sardinian! you Bavarian! you Swabian! Saxon!
 * Wallachian! Bulgarian!

You citizen of Prague! you Roman! Neapolitan!
 * Greek!

You lithe matador in the arena at Seville! You mountaineer living lawlessly on the Taurus or
 * Caucasus!

You Bokh horse-herd, watching your mares and stallions
 * feeding!

You beautiful-bodied Persian, at full speed in the
 * saddle, shooting arrows to the mark!

You Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! you Tartar
 * of Tartary!

You women of the earth subordinated at your tasks! You Jew journeying in your old age through every
 * risk, to stand once on Syrian ground!

You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah! You thoughtful Armenian, pondering by some stream
 * of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of
 * Nineveh! you ascending Mount Ararat!

You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle
 * of the minarets of Mecca!

You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Babelmandel,
 * ruling your families and tribes!

You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Nazareth,
 * Damascus, or Lake Tiberias!

You Thibet trader on the wide inland, or bargaining
 * in the shops of Lassa!

You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar,
 * Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo!