Thus one Othello was, you know,

Black as the plumage of a crow,

And yet the white Miss Desdemona

Loved him as well as flies love honey.

The car of Venus, bards have sung,

Was drawn by doves, when I was young,

But then, were black birds substituted,

Ourself for one were better suited.

We’re rather darkish hued ourself,

Yet will annihilate the elf,