Or rustle round its rainbow-juice. We hushed

Our flights of eloquence when my roghan

Sizzled complacent in the frying-pan.

"Mashallah, what a life! Yet in this scene

I found a fleck of rust upon my tongue.

Propelled by Fate and my own force of lung,

I flitted with two reverend Maghrebín

Whom I had favoured, having learned the trick

Of speaking their foul breed of Arabic.

"Immortal spirits led us, yea the chief