Shields now some Mussulman of lowly strain;

Yet, though he knows me not, I can't help feeling

That something of my spirit must remain,

And if, in that rich air the man should mellow

In mind, in soul, and be a better fellow,

I have not lived in vain.

And it may be, when worlds have ceased to wrestle,

I shall go back across the Midland foam

At special rates in some large tourist vessel

To my late hollow in the Sultan's loam,