BAST
                                                            
She had green eyes, that excellent seer
And little peaks to either ear.
She sat there, and I sat here.
                                                            
She spoke of Egypt, and a white
Temple, against enormous night.
                                                            
She smiled with clicking teeth and said
That the dead were never dead:
                                                            
Said old emperors hung like bats
In barns at night, or ran like rats -
But Empresses came back as cats!
                                                            
                                   William Rose Benil