Ling-Tso Ah Sin; on Murderer's Flat One morning caught an old grey rat: "Ah, white man, I have got you now But no -- dust be upon my brow If needless blood I cause to fall -- So go, there's world-room for us all!" That night Ah Sin was somehow shot -- By @3accident!@1 For he had got From earth a little gold -- black sin For @3thee@1, though not for us, Ah Sin! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET COMPOSED ON A JOURNEY HOMEWARD by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE GRAY MOOD by MARJORIE AKERMAN B. TRAVELLER BY NIGHT, SELECTION by JOANNA BAILLIE A BUDDING MORROW by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |