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In fact, mankind at large,
 Black, yellow, white and red,
Is given to her in charge,
 And owns her as a head.

But every here and there—
 Deny it if you can—
She breeds a vacant stare
 Unworthy of a man:

A look of dull surprise;
 A nerveless idle hand:
An eye which never tries
 To threaten or command:

In short, a kind of man,
 If man indeed he be,
As worthy of our ban
 As any that we see:

Unspeakably obtuse,
 Abominably vain,
Of very little use,
 And execrably plain.