Again! Is there nothing can humanise ever
The heart of Islam, that red-ravening wolf?
Will bonds of convention and treaty bridge never
Between Turk and Christian the broadening gulf?
Will no lesson teach, and will no promise tether,
The Ottoman hordes when let loose on the foe?
Must slaughter, and rapine, and outrage together,
The old vile triumvirate, fetterless go?
Time's fool seems the Turk, stern, unteachable, savage,
The fiercest fool-fighter on history's roll.