When Pharaoh and Moses were chummy
It help’d preserve many a mummy,
Still dreadfully life-like and gummy,
In Egypt’s stone-tombs from decay!
At Baku Jove’s thunderbolts fir’d it,
Devout Zoroaster admir’d it
As Deity symbol’d in flame;
Parsees from the realms of Darius,
Unweariedly earnest and pious,
Adoring and worshipping came.