A Glimpse Of China. "Caste."
These Chinese toil and yet they do not starve, And they obey, and yet they are not slaves. It is the "free-born" fuddled Englishmen That grovel rotting in their living graves. These Chinese do not fawn with servile lips; They lift up equal eyes that ask and scan. Their degradation has escaped at least That choicest curse of all - the gentleman!
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"These Chinese toil and yet they do not starve,..."
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