And with the nervous tension overwrought,
Oft gives expression to the secret thought.
'Twas thus the junior of the rescued men,
A modern Hercules, both fair and young,
With accent truly cosmopolitan,
Raved both in English and some unknown tongue.
His accents wild and unintelligible,
Devoid of meaning, on his hearers fell,
With the exception of the practised ear
Of Russian Pete, who stood beside him there,