If we cut out the middle-man, we will both have better profits.

[…] we now do hope the mercies of God will consider our degenerated integrities unto some minoration of our offences […]

In 1854 a Triad army, commanded by Tai Chün-kat, attacked Taileung, the chief city of the Shuntak district and captured it after half an hour's fighting. Tai Chün-kat, who appears to have been of a merciful disposition, successfully exerted himself in preventing the gentry and wealthy inhabitants from being plundered by his soldiers.

Eberhart is a philosopher-poet whose avowed ambition is “to open/ Poetry to apertive speculation.”