Mummy + 

Thou art at last made perfect; from the estate + 

Of mushy life Death hath thee petrified. + 

The soft the flowing and the putrified + 

That made thee up, is by that artist great + 

Now crystalliz’d unto a changeless state. + 

That thing thou walkedst, nos’d and ear’d and eyed, + 

Eternally severely doth abide, + 

Sunk from the bands of them that drank and ate. + 

Green mummies walk above thy walled gloom, + 

Unripen’d mummies; they intemperate + 

Seek in life’s beauty their high-crowned doom + 

In vain. But thee no passion doth illume + 

Stiff in the musked darkness of the tomb + 

Hard in stiff bands of red and nacarat. + 