Tanasukh

In this our third year of Trajan, Elchasai

God's Sister, without asking why

Remits Majnun's Layla all but Night

Not our Evil, Ebionite.

Downstream, do thy Mandeans wade?
Those Tigris waters in which we played
 'fore, for Evil may, Elder Sister & I
Quaff the Milky Way, Elchasai!

Its marshes drained, does it yet baptise?
Or sell the tears of El's Akka eyes?
For Light was, let Shiduri cry
In Drink's darkness, I'm Elchasai!

Envoi- 

Prince, of thy Third Persecution, the Second Pliny to quote

That we meet 'fore daylight is no crime to report.