Genre:

Poetry

Subjects:

War, Military Technology, Race, Cultural Geography

    Describes the atrocities committed by King Glele of Dahomey and compares him to King Wilhelm I of Prussia, in respect of the 'savage attack' of Prussia on Sönderborg in Denmark. Ponders the differences ''tween Dahomey's dark sons, / And your Prussians; the negroes have no needle-guns' and 'Great and grave is the peril wherein the world stands / From the weapons of science in savages' hands'.