The Anglo-Saxon – lacking grace
To win the love of any race;
Hated by myriads dispossessed
Of rights – the Indians East and West.
These pirates of the sphere! grave looters –
Grave, canting, Mammonite freebooters,
Who in the name of Christ and Trade
(Oh, bucklered forehead of the brass!)
Deflower the world’s last sylvan glade!
-Melville