In every home I stand confessed,

A friend of quiet, peace, and rest;

Take off my head, and on your head

My streamers rise, black, brown, or red;

Cut now again, and take my neck off,

You leave my substance not a speck of,

But, with ethereal lightness gay,

I pass in idle breath away.

366. What relation is the door-mat to the scraper?

367. In what do grave and gay people differ at church?