Rabat is a black pearl

Rabat is a black pearl

   Of cellophanic rainbow

Gazing upon waves that curl

   And lick a shore little known.

Gibraltar is the dock

   Where it steadfast moors -

Enjoying sailboats that flock

   The Mediterranean course

Yet Barbary lions live

   Not far, in the Rif Mountains -

Golden, assertive -

   Their kasbah amid the grass.