Were by her coffin's side.
But when the funeral was o'er,
The widower he went
And greeted one of those—the mutes—
With feeling compliment,
He lightly pinched him by the crape
"O Mister Mute, I say,
I wish I could have wept the tears,
That you have dropped to-day!"
"Ah! me alack!" the mute exclaimed,