And I thought: Well shaken! Let friend or foe
Sweep up the dust an it please them so;
Let Lord and Valet tend to the room;
Lady, and House-maid, here with the broom!
Bid Town and Tattle see to it too
That the windows be washed of the mud they threw.
Dust and ashes of what has been!
Sweep the clean house. And keep it clean.
VIII
I thought to curse—but strange, a prayer