Et Dona Ferentes by Rudyard Kipling — Read

In extended observation of the ways and works of man, / From the Four-mile Radius roughly to the plains of Hindustan: / I have drunk with mixed assemblies, seen the racial ruction rise, / And the men of half creation damning half creation's eyes.

I have watched them in their tantrums, all that pentecostal crew, / French, Italian, Arab, Spaniard, Dutch and Greek, and Russ and Jew, / Celt and savage, buff and ochre, cream and yellow, mauve and white, / But it never really mattered till the English grew polite;