If all these Wuzeers[16] and Aghas, and Khans,

For me spend their time and their tomauns[17];

Their parks and their palaces lay at my feet,

Muster for me their army and fleet

And their miles upon miles of merchant ships;

If without their ferashes[18] and their whips,

Manchester gathers and Liverpool runs,

With voices of men and thunder of guns,

To the light of the face of the Shah-in-Shah,

As unto the amber is drawn the straw;