Unless Self pities Self, and it hurts the Soul

That it and flesh make an ill-smelling whole?

But, if strange that the sufferer thus made

To stand by, share the cruel insult paid

The carcase, being flesh and spirit, one,

Though feigned to feel, by now is past and gone,

And as Nothingness cannot feel it ill

For brutes to maul it, is not stranger still

The impulse rather to exult than mourn

When men foresee they shall hereafter burn