The phantasm Khalif, King of Prodigies!

Kha. And as he said has not our Khalif done,

And so disposed events (from land to land

Passing invisibly) that when, this morn,

The pact of villany complete, there comes

This Patriarch's Nuncio with this Master's Prefect

Their treason to consummate,—each will face

For a crouching handful, an uplifted nation;

For simulated Christians, confessed Druses;

And, for slaves past hope of the Mother-mount,