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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - East And West
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The Day has never understood the Gloaming or the Night;
Though sired by one Creative Power, and nursed at Nature`s breast;
The White Man ever fails to read the Dark Man`s heart aright;
Though from the self-same Source they came, upon the self-same quest;
So deep and wide, the Great Divide,
Between the East and West.


But like a shadow on a screen, mine eyes behold, above
The yawning gulf, a dim forecast, of structures strong and broad;
Where caste, and colour prejudice, by countless feet down trod,
With old traditions crushed by Time, pave smooth the bridge of Love;
And all the creed that men shall heed
Is consciousness of God.
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