A dubious compliment! to witness here).

And the bank-holidays, the giddy nights

Of merry-goes and switch-backs at Earl’s Court—

The penny-in-the-slot machines, the sights

Of pygmies, men deformed of every sort,

Abnormal women, men with scaley skins

And Esmeraldas wise in magic lore

Would bow to stout Viziers, Moujiks and Djins

Encircling Winnie, Queen of Bangalore!