And they whispered to each other:

“Does he mean himself, I wonder?

And are we the aunts and uncles?”

Then again sang Chibiabos,

Sang a song of love and longing,

In those accents sweet and tender,

In those tones of pensive sadness,

Sang a maiden’s lamentation

For her lover, her Algonquin.

“When I think of my beloved,