I never doubted all was joke. I kept,

Maybe, an eye alert on paragraphs,

Newspaper-notice,—let no inquest slip,

Accident, disappearance: sound and safe

Were you, my victim, not of mind to die!

So, my worst fancy that could spoil the smooth

Of pillow, and arrest descent of sleep,

Was 'Into what dim hole can she have dived,

She and her wrongs, her woe that 's wearing flesh

And blood away?' Whereas, see, sorrow swells!