A big hall, an indoor fair in Glasgow
where a bull elephant chained, rocks to and fro.
It had cried but was angry now
a deep ire against mankind.
Then the chains snapped,
it broke lose upended stalls,
chased uncaring man out of the hall,
trumpeted so loudly that other chained elephants,
throughout the land, could hear its call.
They also heard the shot
bowed their heads
and dreamed of their native soil
where the soul of the bull elephant had gone.