Your Morgue has made the Seine renowned.

One pays one's debt in such a case;

I plucked up heart and entered,—stalked,

Keeping a tolerable face

Compared with some whose cheeks were chalked:

Let them! No Briton 's to be balked!

First came the silent gazers; next,

A screen of glass, we 're thankful for;

Last, the sight's self, the sermon's text,

The three men who did most abhor