Serving their masters for crust and bone.

Many a starlight but never like this,

For star on star was a chrysalis

Whence there went soaring

A winged, adoring

Splendor out-pouring a carol of bliss.

Sniffing and bristling the gaunt dogs stood,

Till the seraphs, who smiled at their hardihood,

Calmed their panic

With talismanic