Was poor little Mee Shway-ee.

“And when in the hush of twilight

Rose a startling eldritch cry,

Answered by the gray-winged osprey,

Plunging seaward from the sky;

Then the village wives and maidens,

As they glanced from roof to sea,

Whispered of a human osprey,

And poor writhing Mee Shway-ee.

“But a messenger of Jesus—