Flagged with the purple fantasies of wrack,
Composed a spell not one of them could parse,
And tried it on the sack.
"'Twas filled with pearls! Each Jinni dipped his hand,
And scattered trails through labyrinths of ooze,
Or sowed gems thick upon the golden sand,
Festooned a bed from Bahrein to Ormuz,
Muscat to Ras Naband....
"Hajji, a deeper meaning than appears
Beneath the surface of my song may lurk