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The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again.

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canannites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

There are Batavian graces in all he says.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.