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Respected Sir.(Poem)
RESPECTED SIR Respected Sir, your camels are on fire. Permit I douse them in these nearby streams. All is not lost, disastrous though it seems. See! I have many splendid beasts for hire. Hope is a Phoenix mounting from her pyre Of disappointment and departed dreams, Scintillant like Phoenician ...
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