I + 

I saw a dead corpse lying in a tomb, + 

Long buried and rotten to the core; + 

Behold this corpse shall know not evermore + 

Aught that may be outside its wormy room; + 

It lies uncover’d in the pesty gloom, + 

Eyeless and earless, on the charnel-floor, + 

While in its nameless corpse the wormlets hoar + 

Make in its suppurated brain their room. + 

And in that charnel that no lights illume, + 

It shriek’d of things that lay outside its door; + 

And while the still worms through its soft heart bore, + 

It lay and reason’d of the ways of doom, + 

And in its head thoughts mov’d as in a womb; + 

And in its heart the worms lie evermore. + 