Pipit sate upright in her chair + 

Some distance from where I was sitting; + 

Views of the Oxford Colleges + 

Lay on the table, with the knitting. + 

Daguerreotypes and silhouettes, + 

Her grandfather and great great aunts, + 

Supported on the mantelpiece + 

An Invitation to the Dance. + 

I shall not want Honour in Heaven + 

For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney + 

And have talk with Coriolanus + 

And other heroes of that kidney. + 

I shall not want Capital in Heaven + 

For I shall meet Sir Alfred Mond: + 

We two shall lie together, lapt + 

In a five percent Exchequer Bond. + 

I shall not want Society in Heaven, + 

Lucretia Borgia shall be my Bride; + 

Her anecdotes will be more amusing + 

Than Pipit’s experience could provide. + 

I shall not want Pipit in Heaven: + 

Madame Blavatsky will instruct me + 

In the Seven Sacred Trances; + 

Piccarda de Donati will conduct me. + 

But where is the penny world I bought + 

To eat with Pipit behind the screen? + 

The red-eyed scavengers are creeping + 

From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green; + 

Where are the eagles and the trumpets? + 

Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps. + 

Over buttered scones and crumpets + 

Weeping, weeping multitudes + 

Droop in a hundred A.B.C.’s + 