All bowed at once to Death’s mysterious will,

Who sealed me up where Mummies sound are sleeping,

In cere-cloth, and in tolerable keeping.

Where cows and monkeys squat in rich brocade,

And well-dressed crocodiles in painted cases,

Rats, bats, and owls, and cats in masquerade,

With scarlet flounces and with varnished faces;

Men, birds, brutes, reptiles, fish, all crammed together,

With ladies that might pass for well-tanned leather.

Where Rameses and Sabacon lie down,