You Have Taken Away My Cloak, My Cloak Of Weariness; Take My Coat Also, My Many-Coloured Coat Of Life.... On This Great Nursery Floor I Had Three Toys, A Bright And Varnished Vow, A Speckled Monster, Best Of Boys, True Friend To Me, And More Beloved And A Thing Of Cost, My Doll Painted Like Life; And Now One Is Broken And Two Are Lost. From The Arabic Of John Duncan.