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"TROUBLED ABOUT MANY THINGS."
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 can, 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!