Homily

If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out

If your tired unspeaking head

Rivet the dark with linear sight,

Crazed by a warlock with his curse

Dreamed up in some loquacious bed,

And if the stage-dark head rehearse

The fifth act of the closing night,

Why, cut it off, piece after piece,

And throw the tough cortex away,

And when you've marvelled on the wars

That wove their interior smoke its way,

Tear out the close vermiculate crease

Where death crawled angrily at bay.