“The longer one lives the more one learns,”

Said I, as off to sleep I went,

Bemused with thinking of tithe concerns,

And reading a book, by the Bishop of Ferns,

On the Irish Church Establishment.

But lo! in sleep not long I lay

When fancy her usual tricks began,

And I found myself bewitched away

To a goodly city in Hindostan:

A city, where he who dares to dine