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[The Chinaman's Assailant was allowed to walk quietly / away, although the street was filled with / pedestrians. -- "Newspaper".]
Why should he not have been allowed / To thread with peaceful feet the crowd / Which filled that Christian street? / The Decalogue he had observed, / From Faith in Jesus had not swerved, / And scorning pious platitudes, / He saw in the Beatitudes / A lamp to guide his feet.