Puckered with viciousness and green with hate
Of all the sons of Adam; and black fate
Conspired with her to take account of me,
For all the Jinn who lurk among the gales
Came down to fecundate our bellied sails.
"They blew. They thrust my skull against the sky,
The jade-backed Jinn disguised as ocean-swell,
But I saw through them.... Down we went to hell,
Where Iblis tried to teach me blasphemy
In vain. No devil's wile could make me speak.