O William dear! O William dear!
My rest eternal ceases;
Alas! my everlasting peace
Is broken into pieces.
III.
I thought the last of all my cares
Would end with my last minute;
But tho’ I went to my long home,
I didn’t stay long in it.
IV.
The body-snatchers they have come,
And made a snatch at me;
It’s very hard them kind of men
Won’t let a body be!
V.
You thought that I was buried deep,
Quite decent like and chary,
But from her grave in Mary-bone
They’ve come and bon’d your Mary.
VI.
The arm that used to take your arm
Is took to Dr. Vyse;
And both my legs are gone to walk
The hospital at Guy’s.