The wild Americans came and reared their bungalow, They flung ab.ut their medicines, a merit-making show Inside their schools for woman their books they took and read, When, lo, the Righteous Fists and the 'EEpBed Lanterns thither sped They burned the foreign houses and red up things pell-mell, Til the Five Benighted Nations determined to rebel [sic].
These China's loyal soldiers withstood with great success, Until the Viceroy traitors revealed their faithlessness.
Her merchants then lost courage, and, sudden as a flash, They left their safes and coffers, and threw away their cash They were sv badly frightened that homeward they all scooted, Leaving their shops and merchandise to be destroyed and looted, The supposed-to-be officials soon joined the general rout—They changed their clothes for civil gan and hastily got out, Nor tarried they for horses, nor waited for their chairs, Bat, with their worthless menials, they lit out unawares Then issued forth the Big Kaives, and Queues of igor-tails, Who, after a demonstration, returned to their hills and vales, The magistrates, civil and martial, alike did stand amazed And His Majesty, of Ten Thousand Years seemed to be sort of dazed To see the foreign houses sink in the melting; From the fire of the Bright Rod Lanterns advancing without retreat Of all the detestable dwellings of the men from over the sea Not one of them under the heaven remained, or continued to be, "Dovas for this that the troops of the nations cone swarming in vengeance down, And what a tremendous uproar there was in Peking town The imagery would seem to point to the hurningof tie American mission at Weihsien last June. The fact that many Ch'ihsia men do business in Peking will account for the allusion to the capital.
10th March,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.