Severer Service of myself

Severer Service of myself
I -- hastened to demand
To fill the awful Longitude --[^a1]Vacuum
Your life had left behind --

[^a1: Longitude -- | Longitude --]

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 the figure --[^a2]color of the Day --

[^a2: figure -- | figure --]

Affliction would not be appeased --
The trouble --[^a3]Darkness braced as firm
As all my strategem had been
The Midnight to confirm --

[^a3: trouble -- | trouble --]

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