At tavern-doors, wakes rapture everywhere,

And helps cheap wine down throat this Christmas time,

Beating the bagpipes? Any or all of these!

As well, good friends, you cursed my palace here

To its old cold stone face,—stuck your cap for crest

Over the shield that 's extant in the Square,—

Or spat on the statue's cheek, the impatient world

Sees cumber tomb-top in our family church:

Let him creep under covert as I shall do,

Half below-ground already indeed. Good-by!