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THE YELLOW DANGER
O Europe, that so long hath spent thy spleen
In tough trans-barrier battlings, till no peace
Has thriven secure, from Denmark sheer to Greece,
Past all thy heavens of hills and grandeurs green,
Beware this menace, dire and unforeseen,
That big with rally of onslaught, ere it cease,
Calamitous through thy lands, at fate's caprice,
Mongolian millions wildly would convene!
In tough trans-barrier battlings, till no peace
Has thriven secure, from Denmark sheer to Greece,
Past all thy heavens of hills and grandeurs green,
Beware this menace, dire and unforeseen,
That big with rally of onslaught, ere it cease,
Calamitous through thy lands, at fate's caprice,
Mongolian millions wildly would convene!
Half yours the blame, Britannia, and half yours,
Omnivorous Russia, since your greeds dared wake
These torpid swarms to furious flame of ill!
Yet shun Japan's conciliatory lures,
Lest she, the old kith of China, turn and make
This loathsome Yellow Danger yellower still!
Omnivorous Russia, since your greeds dared wake
These torpid swarms to furious flame of ill!
Yet shun Japan's conciliatory lures,
Lest she, the old kith of China, turn and make
This loathsome Yellow Danger yellower still!
July 1900.
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