African Guardian of Souls, <br />Drunk with rum, <br />Feasting on strange cassava, <br />Yielding to new words and a weak palabra <br />Of a white-faced sardonic god-- <br />Grins, cries <br />Amen, <br />Shouts hosanna.<br /><br />Jean Toomer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/conversion/
