Sweet – safe – Houses –
Glad – gay – Houses –
Sealed so stately tight –
Lids of Steel – on Lids of Marble –
Locking Barefeet out –
Brooks of Plush – in Banks of Satin
Not so softly fall
As the laughter – and the whisper –
From their People Pearl –
No Bald Death – affront their Parlors –
No Bold Sickness come
To deface their stately Treasures –
Anguish – and the Tomb –
Hum by – in muffled Coaches –
Lest they –
— wonder Why –
Any – for the Press of Smiling –
Interrupt – to die –