Here bucks drink deep and tigers tryst

Neck-deep in grasses lush.

"And there the stainless peaks are kissed

By heaven whose crowning mercy, mist,

With cloud-lands white as Allah's fist

Anoints their heads with rain.

We never dreamed, where nature pours,

That life could run as thin as yours—

A waif thirst-stricken to all fours—

Or verdure, but a vein