V + 

Death is death; the little host that squirms, + 

The smell, the dark, the coffin clos’d, and I + 

So soft, so soft; no movement, and no breath; + 

No ears, no nose, no eyeballs; Death is Death; + 

The sepulchre, no sight, no sound, no cry, + 

And always; Death is Death; the worms! the worms + 