"What impious mockery, when, with soulless art,

Fashion, intrusive, seeks to rule the heart;

Directs how grief may tastefully be borne;

Instructs Bereavement just how long to mourn;

Shows Sorrow how by nice degrees to fade,

And marks its measure in a ribbon's shade!

More impious still, when, through her wanton laws,

She desecrates Religion's sacred cause;

Shows how the narrow road is easiest trod,

And how, genteelest, worms may worship God."