Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 5

And take the tasks in your own hands the tasks of your own fate do not let the helper from elsewhere tell you what is best what is best for you in his words is always infinitely better for him Wake! Wake! Asia! Now! The poor the misguided in streets and villages weigh on consciences for you have always let them be in their ignominious plight show them how share with them your superior knowledge Wake! India! Wake! Differences only persist because you want them to it is enough to show them what causes their bodies to weaken it is enough to feed their minds with that little which will grow in time Wake! India! Wake! If you give them no running water and the drains and pipes of evacuation if the rubbish that piles up behind huts and mansions heaves and humps if you dung and spray in the open air to feed legions of flies and insects Wake! O! India! Wake! The food that they serve you will be from unclean hands and the tourist will bypass the hotel and soon the sub-continent and there’d be little use in saying we the upper castes we live in godly-cleanliness Wake! India! Wake! And shatter the dream of the purity of untarnished blood there are just those who are born with blood and bones legs hands eyes and those who think they are twice-born with more than just that Wake! India! Wake! We have all but one mother over that great eastern divide of the Black Continent in the nuit des temps our dreams stood up on hind legs and uttered the words we now mouth in Babelic tongues Wake! O Asia! Wake! And take upon yourselves the task of showing those who falter in spent spurious dreams that the age of conquerors is an age brought to a standstill in history books that buying and selling is all the commerce conquerors can peddle nowadays Wake! Asia! Wake! (Continued in Part One - 6)