CANTO SIXTH - THE GUARD ROOM (Part II) - LAMENT
Lizzie covered up her eyes,
To watch her sister's cankerous care
Seemed knocking at Death's door:
Clucking and gobbling,
Come buy, come buy:
She fell at last;
Fell sick and died
And gnashed her teeth for baulked desire, and wept
Swift fire spread thro' her veins, knocked at her heart,
CANTO SIXTH - THE GUARD ROOM (Part II) - LAMENT
Lizzie covered up her eyes,
To watch her sister's cankerous care
Seemed knocking at Death's door:
Clucking and gobbling,
Come buy, come buy:
She fell at last;
Fell sick and died
And gnashed her teeth for baulked desire, and wept
Swift fire spread thro' her veins, knocked at her heart,