When Genghis and his captains Built their pyramids of skulls Outside Bokhara and Herat, And sacked Otrar and Samarcand, There was no sophistry between the subject and             and the verb; For what the Khan said, he meant. Behind the dust were the hoofs of his cavalry, Behind the smoke was his fire. And when Mohammed and Jehal-ud-Din, In their flight from the Indus to the Caspian, Appealed to Allah for protection, Even the Great God of Islam Could find no escape for the faithful, When he knew the flight was regimented To the paces of a Mongol syllogism.