THE BROWNIES IN TURKEY.

If we were not an active batch
In such as these we’d find our match.
But steps or stairs we don’t require
To help us up the tallest spire.”

Another said: “No person can,

Be he a Greek or Mussulman,

Erect a steeple round or square

Or octagon so high in air

Above his meeting-house or shop

That Brownies cannot reach the top.”

 

Then St. Sophia’s mosque so grand
Was much admired by all the band.
They sauntered round and round the place,
Then measured it with even pace,

And found the statements of its size

And beauty were not spiced with lies.
They walked around

in gardens fair,

 
 
  
 
 
 

Enjoying perfume-laden air,
And on the very
Sultan’s lawn
They played at games
till early dawn ;