Severer service of myself

Severer Service of myself
I hastened to demand
To fill the awful Vacuum
Your life had left behind -

I worried Nature with my Wheels
When Her's had ceased to run -
When she had put away Her Work
My own had just begun -

I strove to weary Brain and Bone -
To harass to fatigue
The glittering Retinue of nerves -
Vitality to clog

To some dull comfort Those obtain
Who put a Head away
They knew the Hair to -
And forget thefigure - color of the Day -

Affliction would not be appeased -
Thetrouble - Darkness braced as firm
As all my strategem had been
The Midnight to confirm -

No Drug for Consciousness - can be -
Alternative to die
Is Nature's only Pharmacy
For Being's Malady -