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JUSTICE (UNCIVILISED AND CIVILISED) by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: LING-TSO AH SIN; ON MURDERER'S FLAT
Last Line: FOR THEE, THOUGH NOT FOR US, AH SIN!
Subject(s): AUSTRALIA; JUSTICE; MURDER; SIN;
Ling-Tso Ah Sin; on Murderer's Flat
One morning caught an old grey rat:
"Ah, white man, I have got you now
But no -- dust be upon my brow
If needless blood I cause to fall --
So go, there's world-room for us all!"

That night Ah Sin was somehow shot --
By @3accident!@1 For he had got
From earth a little gold -- black sin
For @3thee@1, though not for us, Ah Sin!



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