THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

I was such a happy fool

I pretended to play at robbers

Who had stolen the treasure of Golconda

And thanks to the Trans-Siberian, we were going to hide it on the other side of the world

I had to defend it against thieves in the Urals who had ambushed

a circus troupe in Jules Verne

Against the Khunkhuz, the Boxers of China

And the angry little mongols of the Grand Lama

Alibaba and the forty thieves

Cendrars/Transsibérien (76-84)