To a Lady's Breathing
( I )
Steep-up,he does,on a
Ragged-staff depend:
Straw pauper.
Still, his sheaved stuff,
An Autumn currance with indolence spends.
He,tottering anatomy upon a perch
Of weeds.
Sinking-ripe,sallow ragman,in the
Senescence of Summer's seeds.
With a yeoman's fabric ( an enduring
Half-cap declines ) unnumbered holes
Felled,fall,drop fold upon fulsome
Fold. Third and twist.
( I say,thread and cord ).
To rival proper the addle lattice,
Of intrince Autumn mould.
( II )
"What-desiccate-sole disquiet
A scarecrow coquette?"
What fluent instrument,
What fleshly organ's sough
Nips,even,compeer crow
At rest of his rooky cabinet?
( Casual upon the marionette's strawy epaulet ).
Not themselves the throat,effeminate,
Of long purples do beget
So, upon mouth-pins pull and stitches fret.
The crow-keeper,
( Crucified on a tall grain�d cane).
Crowkeeper (Cornelius Scarecrow esquire)
