The wooden half-moon collar, now eclipsed

By the blade which blocked its curvature: apart,

The other half,—the under half-moon board

Which, helped by this, completes a neck's embrace,—

Joined to a sort of desk that wheels aside

Out of the way when done with,—down you kneel,

In you 're pushed, over you the other drops,

Tight you 're clipped, whiz, there 's the blade cleaves its best,

Out trundles body, down flops head on floor,

And where 's your soul gone? That, too, I shall find!