IN ARABIA

IN a far Arabian glen

Cousin Bob conducted Ben.

How they went from Hamp-
stead Heath

No one knoweth—no one saith.

Then began in field and lane

Strange adventures thick as
rain,

’ For a fountain played in air,

And it had no bottom there.

Flashed along the upright pool

Rainbow lights most beautiful ;

Every spray of water sang

Till the glade’s seclusion rang

With such music as the stars

Send abroad in lovely bars.

Next they trod a_ precious
mould,

Where each spear of grass was
gold,