All the fuss and trouble of street-sounds, window-sights:

All the worry of flapping door and echoing roof; and then,

All the fancies ... Who were they had leave, dared try

Darker arts that almost struck despair in me?

If you knew but how I dwelt down here!" quoth I:

"And was I so better off up there?" quoth She.

"Help and get it over! Reunited to his wife

(How draw up the paper lets the parish-people know?)

Lies M. or N., departed from this life,

Day the this or that, month and year the so and so.