O’er the parchment (not a rhyme),

Out of place,—out of time,—

I am shredded, shorn, unshifty,

(O, the fifty!)

And the days have passed, the three,

Over me!

And the debit and the credit are as one to him and me!

’Twas the random runes I wrote

At the bottom of the note

(Wrote, and freely