Hearse-Horse

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <p class="title"><SPAN id="HEARSE-HORSE"></SPAN>THE HEARSE-HORSE.</p> <p class="stanza"> Said the hearse-horse to the coffin,<br/> "What the devil have you there?<br/> I may trot from court to square,<br/> Yet it neither swears nor groans,<br/> When I jolt it over stones."<br/> Said the coffin to the hearse-horse,<br/> "Bones!"<br/></p> <p class="stanza"> Said the hearse-horse to the coffin,<br/> "What the devil have you there,<br/> With that purple frozen stare?<br/> Where the devil has it been<br/> To get that shadow grin?"<br/> Said the coffin to the hearse-horse,<br/> "Skin!"<br/></p> <p class="stanza"> Said the hearse-horse to the coffin,<br/> "What the devil have you there?<br/> It has fingers, it has hair;<br/> Yet it neither kicks nor squirms<br/> At the undertaker's terms."<br/> Said the coffin to the hearse-horse,<br/> "Worms!"<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />