Shop was shop only: household-stuff?

What did he want with comforts there?

"Walls, ceiling, floor, stay blank and rough,

So goods on sale show rich and rare!

'Sell and scud home,' be shop's affair!"

What might he deal in? Gems, suppose!

Since somehow business must be done

At cost of trouble,—see, he throws

You choice of jewels, every one,

Good, better, best, star, moon, and sun!