Dame with chased ring and jewelled rose,
Things sanctity saves from taint;
So we come to find them in after-days
When the corpse is presumed to have done with gauds
Of use to the living, in many ways:
For the boys get pelf, and the town applauds,
And the church deserves the praise.
They grubbed with a will: and at length—O cor
Humanum, pectora cæca, and the rest!—
They found—no gaud they were prying for,