For a leer that is ghastly and sad."
A human heart, transfixed with a dart,
Preserved in a bottle was shown, -
A heart with a story, which little of glory
And much of sorrow had known.
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And the foot of a Jew of an ebony hue,
Injected with acid carbolic,
Which is said to preserve every tissue and nerve
With an odor that's quite diabolic.
As I left my friend, and turned to wend
My lonesome homeward way,
A peal of loud laughter came following after,
And a voice that was merry and gay, -
"Those horrors of thine are all in thy mind;
The room has none for me;
The flesh and the bones are but dry dust and stones.
You view them too curiously."
H. H., '76.