A stone's throw out on either hand <br />From that well-ordered road we tread, <br />And all the world is wild and strange; <br />Churel and ghoul and Djinn and sprite <br />Shall bear us company to-night, <br />For we have reached the Oldest Land <br />Wherein the powers of Darkness range.<br /><br />Rudyard Kipling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-house-of-suddhoo/