Excerpt from The Improvement Era, Vol. 37: May, 1934The tall lush grass of the white men. They ate, and disgorged, and ate. Six days the strange war ran, Even the men and the small children Till the snow-white warriors won Fought the black crickets, Over the black hordes.Beat them with boughs and clubs, Drowned them in ditches, Burned them by hundreds in thickets.But the hopping and crawling things Came thick as sand m a gale, And ate with the hunger that pants In the red mouth of fire, Ate the food that the whites Must have to warm their bodies Through the gray moons of chill.When the sixth dim evening came And the white birds one by one Flew into the setting sun.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.