The alternative being that the robber may treat us
To a couple of bullets by way of quietus;
Thus applying our brains, if perchance we have got any,
In this summary mode to the study of botany,
By besprinkling the leaves, and the grass, and the flowers,
With the source of our best intellectual powers,
And, regardless of habeas corpus, creating
A feast for the worms, which are greedily waiting
Till such time as any gent
Quits this frail tenement,