Distinctly leonine success,
'Twould be as a returned explorer.
So, when by sixteen tigers tree'd,
Or when mad elephants were charging,
I joyed to say—"On this, some day,
My countrymen will be enlarging."
And when mosquitoes buzzed and bit
(For 'tis their pleasing nature to),
Or fevers floored me, still this dream
Helped me to suffer and to do.