It's thoughts — and just One Heart —

And Old Sunshine — about —

Make frugal — Ones — Content —

And two or three — for Company —

Upon a Holiday —

Crowded — as Sacrament —


Books — when the Unit —

Spare the Tenant — long eno' —

A Picture — if it Care —

Itself — a...

Not with a Club, the Heart is broken

Nor with a Stone —

A Whip so small you could not see it

I've known


To lash the Magic Creature

Till it fell,

Yet that Whip's Name

Too noble then to tell.


Magnanimous as Bird

By Boy descried —

Singing unto the...

Sang from the Heart, Sire,

Dipped my Beak in it,

If the Tune drip too much

Have a tint too Red


Pardon the Cochineal —

Suffer the Vermillion —

Death is the Wealth

Of the Poorest Bird.


Bear with the Ballad —

Awkward — faltering —

Death twists the...

The healed Heart shows its shallow scar

With confidential moan —

Not mended by Mortality

Are Fabrics truly torn —

To go its convalescent way

So shameless is to see

More genuine were Perfidy

Than such Fidelity.