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 "ET DONA FERENTES"

extended observation of the ways and works of man,

From the Four-mile Radius roughly to the plains of Hindustan:

I have drunk with mixed assemblies, seen the racial ruction rise,

And the men of half creation damning half creation's eyes.

I have watched them in their tantrums, all that Pentecostal crew,

French, Italian, Arab, Spaniard, Dutch and Greek, and Russ and Jew,

Celt and savage, buff and ochre, cream and yellow, mauve and white,

But it never really mattered till the English grew polite;

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