THE BROWNIES IN CHINA.

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This wall that kept the Tatars out
Two thousand years, or thereabout,
Has failed to keep the Brownie band
For fifteen minutes from the land.”

   

 
 

 

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The Brownies many wonders found

While through that empire roaming round.

"T was large enough to let them range

Through fertile plains and cities strange

For weeks and months, and still pursue

Their way through scenes and wonders new.
Said one: “The oldest country spread
Upon the world we Brownies tread;
Great nations rose and Swept away
Their neighbors’ lines, and had their day,
Then crumbled to a final fall,
But this old empire lived through all.
Three thousand years have left no trace
Upon the customs of the race;
Still eating rice and drinking tea,
Behind their wall from trouble free,
They live content to be alone

Among their shrines of wood and stone.”
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