"I said to the corpse: 'There is to be one

Who'll be ghastly as your cold clay;

Aye, bluer than you before I have done,

And with hair like glorified hay.'

Come, Maud, it is time that we had begun,

So hasten, my love, I pray,

Or we shan't be able to keep out the sun;

Don't bismuth yourself all day.

"I said to our surgeon: 'You often go