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Confucius, Confucius, how great was Confucius-- The sage of Shantung, and the master of Mencius?

Alexander fights the East. Just as the Indus turns him back He hears of tempting lands beyond, With sword-swept cities on the rack With crowns outshining India’s crown: The Empire of China, crumbling down. Later the Roman sibyls say: “Egypt, Persia and Macedon, Tyre and Carthage, passed away; And the Empire of China is crumbling down. Rome will never crumble down.”