Juan, who did not understand a word

Of English, save their shibboleth, "God damn!"[565]And even that he had so rarely heard,

He sometimes thought 't was only their "Salām,"

Or "God be with you!"—and 't is not absurd

To think so,—for half English as I am

(To my misfortune), never can I say

I heard them wish "God with you," save that way;—