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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532763" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Jingo and the Minstrel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AN ARGUMENT FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND GOODWILL WITH THE JAPANESE PEOPLE</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glossary for the uninstructed and the hasty: Jimmu Tenno, ancestor of all the Japanese Emperors; Nikko, Japan's loveliest shrine; Iyeyasu, her greatest statesman; Bushido, her code of knighthood; The Forty-seven Ronins, her classic heroes; Nogi, her latest hero; Fuji, her most beautiful mountain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>&quot;Now do you know of Avalon <br>That sailors call Japan? <br>She holds as rare a chivalry<br>As ever bled for man.<br>King Arthur sleeps at Nikko hill<br>Where Iyeyasu lies,<br>And there the broad Pendragon flag<br>In deathless splendor flies.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Nay, minstrel, but the great ships come <br>From out the sunset sea. <br>We cannot greet the souls they bring <br>With welcome high and free. <br>How can the Nippon nondescripts <br>That weird and dreadful band <br>Be aught but what we find them here:— <br>The blasters of the land?&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;First race, first men from anywhere <br>To face you, eye to eye. <br>For that do you curse Avalon<br>And raise a hue and cry?<br>These toilers cannot kiss your hand,<br>Or fawn with hearts bowed down:<br>Be glad for them, and Avalon,<br>And Arthur's ghostly crown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;No doubt your guests, with sage debate<br>In grave things gentlemen<br>Will let your trade and farms alone<br>And turn them back again.<br>But why should brawling braggarts rise<br>With hasty words of shame<br>To drive them back like dogs and swine<br>Who in due honor came?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;We cannot give them honor, sir. <br>We give them scorn for scorn. <br>And Rumor steals around the world <br>All white-skinned men to warn <br>Against this sleek silk-merchant here <br>And viler coolie-man <br>And wrath within the courts of war <br>Brews on against Japan!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Must Avalon, with hope forlorn, <br>Her back against the wall,<br>Have lived her brilliant life in vain<br>While ruder tribes take all?<br>Must Arthur stand with Asian Celts,<br>A ghost with spear and crown,<br>Behind the great Pendragon flag<br>And be again cut down?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Tho Europe's self shall move against <br>High Jimmu Tenno's throne <br>The Forty-seven Ronin Men <br>Will not be found alone.<br>For Percival and Bedivere <br>And Nogi side by side<br>Will stand,—with mourning Merlin there,<br>Tho all go down in pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;But has the world the envious dream—<br>Ah, such things cannot be,—<br>To tear their fairy-land like silk<br>And toss it in the sea?<br>Must venom rob the future day<br>The ultimate world-man<br>Of rare Bushido, code of codes,<br>The fair heart of Japan?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Go, be the guest of Avalon.<br>Believe me, it lies there<br>Behind the mighty gray sea-wall<br>Where heathen bend in prayer:<br>Where peasants lift adoring eyes<br>To Fuji's crown of snow.<br>King Arthur's knights will be your hosts,<br>So cleanse your heart, and go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;And you will find but gardens sweet<br>Prepared beyond the seas,<br>And you will find but gentlefolk<br>Beneath the cherry-trees.<br>So walk you worthy of your Christ<br>Tho church bells do not sound,<br>And weave the bands of brotherhood<br>On Jimmu Tenno's ground.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Vachel+Lindsay">Vachel Lindsay</a><div class=q>
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