They clamber with never a bungle

To dive from the eaves.

'Tis an orgy of goblins, an image

Of nudity flouting the flood,

Of shorn-headed brownies who scrimmage

And splash in the mud.

As we row neath a tamarind, one'll

Roll off with a gesture of fright,

Bobbing up like a cork at our gunwale

And gurgling delight.