(_By a Western Wonderer._)
All in the East seems so dawdling and queer!
Bogus engagements, and battles _pour rire_,
Militant meetings--where nobody meets--
Ghostly armies and phantom fleets;
"Terrible slaughter"--with never a blow,
Corpse-choked rivers that maps do not show;
Wild contradiction and vagueness extreme,
Faith, it all reads like some Flowery Land dream,
Arabian-nightish, and opium-bred,
Japanese-spookish, delirium-fed,
Wild, willow-patternish; sort of a "War"
JOHNNY might paint on a blue ginger-jar.
Wonder how long such a queer war will wag on?
No one can tell--when 'tis _Dragon_ v. _Dragon_!
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