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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STAMP OF CIVILIZATION, by MAX SIMON NORDAU Poet's Biography
First Line: Japan hath western culture? So you say. O vain
Last Line: As for japan? Why e'en anti-semitism in her land is quite unknown.
Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Japan; Jews; Japanese; Judaism
First Line: Japan hath western culture? So you say. O vain
Last Line: As for japan? Why e'en anti-semitism in her land is quite unknown.
Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Japan; Jews; Japanese; Judaism
JAPAN hath Western culture? So you say. O vain sophistic thought!
'Tis but the color of its texture that in her life is lightly wrought.
Civilization's higher forms belong to Western men alone.
As for Japan? Why e'en Anti-Semitism in her land is quite unknown.
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