Here, on the broad plains of Kurdistan, there was scope for Asia's largest host to array its lines, to wheel, to skirmish, to condense or expand its squadrons, to manoeuvre, and to charge at will.

Thus when dispersed a routed army runs, Of Asia's troops, and Afric's sable sons, With like confusion different nations fly, Of various habit, and of various dye, The pierced battalions disunited fall, In heaps on heaps; one fate o'erwhelms them all.

The nymphs of Arno; Adria's goddess-queen; Greece, where the Latin banner floated free; The lands that border on the Syrian sea; The Euxine, and fair Naples; these have been Thine, by the right of conquest; these should be Still thine by empire: Asia's broad demesne, Afric, Americarealms never seen But by thy ventureall belong to thee.

When Asia's nations own me for their lord, Wealth, and command, and grandeur shall be thine!

You thought me sunk in lethargy, too deeply drugged with sleep To notice how your armored fleets kept creeping o'er the deep, Too indolent to organize, too feeble to resist, Too timid to return the blow of Europe's mailèd fist; And Asia's conquest seemed to you a matter of such ease That all your kings knew perfectly the part which each would seize.

And yet perhaps it had been well, before you formed your plan, To study Asia's history from Persia to Japan; For though the sleeping Orient, like grain before the blast, May bow its head, it rights itself when once the storm is past.

The morning pass'd, and Asia's sun rose up In the clear heaven, and every beam was heat.

The lovely Zebra, Asia's painted ass, 'Stead of a den, and bed of straw possessor, Down to old Cambridge should have had a pass, To fill the office of some wise professor; Then, had he shown each antiquated quiz, His Zebra auricles were long as his.

As Rafael looked down upon the towers of the crumbling convent of La Murta, almost hidden in its pine-groves, he thought of all the tragedy of the Reconquest; and almost mourned the fate of those farmer-warriors whose white cloaks he could imagine as still floating among the groves of those magic trees of Asia's paradise.

The tribes, the nations, who shall name, That guest-like, there assembled came? From Theseus' town, from Aulis' strand From Phocis, from the Spartans' land From Asia's wave-divided clime, The Isles that gem the Ægean Sea, To hearken on that Stage Sublime, The Dark Choir's mournful melody!

Asia's good neighbor.

Asia's good neighbor.

Margaret S. Chaney (A); 23Aug71; R511371. CHANG, H. H. Chiang Kai-shek: Asia's man of destiny.

Asia's lands and peoples: a geography of one-third the earth and two-thirds its people.

Asia's good neighbor.

Asia's good neighbor.

Margaret S. Chaney (A); 23Aug71; R511371. CHANG, H. H. Chiang Kai-shek: Asia's man of destiny.

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Asia's lands and peoples: a geography of one-third the earth and two-thirds its people.

Sweden, where, in ancient times, the sacred gods came from Asia's mountains!

Today Asia's active development of several variants of Marxism is defended against any repetition of Hitler's 1941 drive to the East by the massive land barrier of the Soviet Union and its East European Marxist associates.

From fiery Afric's burning sands, From Asia's hoary templed lands, From the pale borders of the North, From the far Souththe fruitful West, O, long ago each journeyed forth, Led hither by one glorious quest!

before thine eye The beard and teeth of Asia's monarch lie, At hazard of my life, to please thee, won; And in this fair, by every peril tried, The heiress of his throne, my love, my bride!'

Our ship was close on the Asia's quarter.

The Greek pilot had been killed; and ere the Asia's boat had reached the ship, the firing was unremitting between the Asia, Genoa, and Albion, and the Turkish ships.