From ponderous pachyderms' innocent shapes!
O, shipped of old time by the navies of Tarshish
For Solomon's court and the wondering gapes
Of Jerusalem's Great Age,
The invoice for freightage
Including some items of peacocks and parcels of apes!
O exquisite surface of Orient idols!
O, hewn by the workmen of cunning Cathay
For the sword-hilts of kings and their saddles and bridles!
O, carved for Athene! O, chosen to-day