That scarce can wait the reading of the will

Before he takes possession? Was mine a mood

To be invaded rudely, and not rather

A sacred, secret, unapproached woe

Unspeakable? I was shut up with grief;

She took the body of my past delight,

Narded, and swathed and balm'd it for herself,

And laid it in a new-hewn sepulchre,

Where man had never lain. I was led mute

Into her temple like a sacrifice;