Yet no one came a room to seek,

No strangers waited at the door,

No lodgers viewed the second floor,

No people asked, “How much a week?”

She only said, “It’s very dreary,

They do not come,” she said.

She said, “I am aweary, aweary,

And cannot let a bed.”

The men who came to mend the roof,

The tax collector, and the sound