The Decline of the West

by Rudyard Kipling

Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan

brown,

For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he weareth the

Christian down;

And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of

the late deceased,

And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the

East."