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The contempt of the mystic for opinion. 
 
 
 
XXXII 
 
THE BULL-FROGS 
 
 
In ill repute of pious folk1 
The Sufi seeth but a joke. 
 
The traveller, passing by the mere, 
Heeds not the frogs, but lets them croak. 
 
So in thy podex I delight, 
Nor heed at all what Allah spoke.2 
 
While stands my member, blooms by rose, 
Wine I can drink, or huqqa3 smoke,  
 
So long I laugh at Aflatun, 
And fun at Aristu4 I poke. 
 
Thy buttocks with their splendid sun 
This joy in me have ever woke ; 
 
In rapture alway El Qahar 
His spirit is content to soak. 
 
 
 
1.  Pious folk — Wahhabi [Persian text] the Mus-
lim strictarians. 
2.  Obscure.  I doubt if the Q’uran forbids sodo-
my.  See Q’uran XV, where the fault of the people 
appears to be their breach of hospitality, always a 
stigma in primitive communities.  The Bible is just 
as broadminded on the point, both in the Story of