A Nightmare + 

I dreamed that I was dead. The years went by: + 

The world forgot that such a man as I + 

Had lived and written, although other names + 

Were hailed with homage, in their turn to die. + 

Out of my grave a giant beech upgrew. + 

Its roots transpierced my body, through and through, + 

My substance fed its growth. From many lands + 

Men came in troops that noble tree to view. + 

’Twas sacred to my memory and fame⁠— + 

But Julian Hawthorne’s wittol daughter came + 

And with untidy finger daubed upon + 

Its bark a reeking record of her name. + 