A Bishop so wise, and a native so tame,
Conversed in an African mead,
Colenso the Brave was the Suffragan’s name,
But the pensive Zulu’s is not given to fame,
And they talked upon questions of creed.
“O hush those suspicions,” the Suffragan said,
“Offensive to Church and to me.”
But something the native put into his head,
He mused on at board, and he mused on in bed,
And he talked of the same in his see.