How many times these low feet staggered --

Only the soldered mouth can tell --

Try -- can you stir the awful rivet --

Try -- can you lift the hasps of steel!

Stroke the cool forehead -- hot so often --

Lift -- if you care -- the listless hair --

Handle the adamantine fingers

Never a thimble -- more -- shall wear --

Buzz the dull flies -- on the chamber window --

Brave -- shines the sun through the freckled pane --

Fearless -- the cobweb swings from the ceiling --

Indolent Housewife -- in Daisies -- lain!