“Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, And through them passes a wild motley throng. Men from Volga and Tartar step. Featureless figures from the Hoang-ho, Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt and Slav, Flying the Old World’s poverty and scorn; These bringing with them unknown gods and rites, Those tiger passions here to stretch their claws, In street and alley what strange tongues are these, Accents of menace in our ear, Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew. -THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, “UNGUARDED GATES,” 1882” – ( Neil Gaiman)
