What to the Hindu saith the Frank:
"Denier of the Laws divine!
"However godly-good thy Life,
Hell is the home for thee and thine."

"Go strain the draught before 'tis drunk,
and learn that breathing every breath,
"With every step, with every gest,
something of life thou do'est to death."

Replies the Hindu: "Wend thy way
for foul and foolish Mlenchhas fit;
"Your Pariah-par'adise woo and win;
at such dog-Heav'en I laugh and spit."

"Cannibals of the Holy Cow!
who make your rav'ening maws the grave
"Of Things with self-same right to live;--
what Fiend the filthy license gave?"

What to the Moslem cries the Frank?
"A polygamic Theist thou!
"From an imposter-Prophet turn;
Thy stubborn head to Jesus bow."

Rejoins the Moslem: "Allah's one
tho' with four Moslemahs I wive,
"One-wife-men ye and (damned race!)
you split your God to Three and Five."