Is, ‘Stranger, remember to pray for the soul
Of Abdul, the Bulbul Ameer.’
“Where the Muscovite maiden her vigil doth keep
By the light of the true lover’s star,
The name she so tenderly murmurs in sleep
Is ‘Ivan Petruski Skivah.’
The sons of the Prophet are hardy and bold
And quite unaccustomed to fear;
But, of all, the most reckless of life or of limb,
Was Abdul, the Bulbul Ameer.”