What thoughts these Cuban exiles bring!

He that knows aught of mythic lore

Knows how god Bacchus wandered o'er

The earth, and what strange names he bore.

The Bishop of Avranches supposes

That all these large and varying doses

Of fable mean naught else than Moses;

But waiving doubts, we surely know

He taught mankind to plough and sow,

And from the Tigris to the Po