She only said: ‘My life is dreary;
He cometh not,’ she said;
She said: ‘I am aweary, aweary—
I would that I were dead!’
They lifted him with kindly care;
They took him by the heels and head;
Across the floor, and up the stair,
They bore him safely to his bed.
They wrapped the blankets warm and tight,
And round about his nose and chin