Said the solemn self-important Sovereign State
To the Nation which enables it to live,
“We're supreme in our inborn superiority—
You are nothing but a delegate authority
Which the states that met to make you deigned to give!”

(Now whatever such a theory may mean
It belongs to the original thirteen:
And not to one this nation, as a nation
Established in auriferous temptation)

Said the haughty self-assertive Sovereign State,
“We shall govern here exactly as we please;
If we dislike a certain nationality
We repudiate your treaty-made equality,
And discriminate against them at our ease”

(Now whatever California may do
To the Chinaman, the Dago and the Jew,
She's facing here a different condition—
Japan is quite another proposition!)