And envious Neptune upsets your pea-soup.

VIII.

What pleasure to walk with a staggering gait,

With dimness of sight, and confusion of pate;

Like a drunkard to reel when the ship gives a lurch,

And balance see-saw, like a duck forced to perch!

IX.

The city of palaces bursts on my sight!

Its mosques and its temples I hail with delight;

A palace in every building I see,