Let the caviller say that the victim to-day
is preserved from a final disaster,
And is saved from the Japs that to-morrow perhaps
he may furnish a meal for their master:

Yet I cannot believe that what Concerts achieve
is by reasons ulterior dictated,
I am perfectly sure that their motives are pure
(by themselves it is frequently stated);
By themselves we are taught that they never in thought
could the Good with the Selfish commingle--
What they do is designed for the good of mankind
with an eye that is simple and single!

For whomever--_e.g._, let us say the Chinee--
you have freed from the fear of invasion,
Should he presently seem in a posture to be
which is open to Moral Persuasion,--
How you take him in hand, a philanthropist band!
how you toil to improve his condition,
With a noble disdain of the trouble and pain
of a wholly unselfish Partition!

For it grieves you, of course, when--ignoring the force
which the doctrine of Mine and of Thine has--
E'en Integrity's self you must lay on the shelf
(I allude, not to Europe's but China's)!
Let detractors contend that your means and your end
are the end and the means of the vulture--
Such an altruist plan must betoken the man