THE SPINSTER HOUSEHOLDER MARTYR, OR THE MAN IN POSSESSION.
NOT a sigh was heard, not a funeral note,
As the malice of Gladstone she parried:
"No taxes from me; I pay not a shot!"
So her furniture off was carried.
They carried it darkly—a deed of night,
For desk, tables, and chairs oft returning,
By the struggling moonbeams' misty light,
And a lantern dimly burning.