The beer will be green!

Women will not bear!

Our spears will be blunt!

Our magic will wane!

And He will be wroth!”

“Eh! Ah! … Eh! Ah! … Eh! Ah! … Eh! Ah! … Eh! Ah! …”
grunted the chorus of the doctors. Then chanted Marufa:

“Lo! I have slept and been that which I must!

Preying swiftly by night!

Behold! I have bloodied my fangs in the throat

Of a mighty bull eland!