One merry April morning, Guido woke

After the cuckoo, so late, near noonday,

With an inordinate yawning of the jaws,

Ears plugged, eyes gummed together, palate, tongue

And teeth one mud-paste made of poppy-milk;

And found his wife flown, his scritoire the worse

For a rummage,—jewelry that was, was not,

Some money there had made itself wings too,—

The door lay wide and yet the servants slept

Sound as the dead, or dozed, which does as well.