Ali-el-Kerbelaï, Known-of-Men,
To whom—he slept all day—his nightly school
Resorted in the porch. He saw, and shrugged
His shoulders, rounded in glory like the hills
That drift and clash about the Gulf of Pearls—
Bahreinis tell the tale lest rival dhows
Should venture into trade—and thus held forth:
"Gossips, I have watched fools wander through this gate
In generations. Never have I seen
Men so bewitched by one closed palanquin,