Red-men, new-made
Out of the Saxon clay,
Strong and redeemed,
Bold in your war-array!




The Jingo and the Minstrel

An Argument for the Maintenance of Peace and Goodwill
with the Japanese People



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.


# The minstrel speaks. #
"Now do you know of Avalon
That sailors call Japan?
She holds as rare a chivalry
As ever bled for man.
King Arthur sleeps at Nikko hill
Where Iyeyasu lies,
And there the broad Pendragon flag