The chest and trunk,

doomed and destined,

fated and designed,

not to be tackled,

challenged or defied.

The coffin’s contents, virtuous,

righteous,

pious and sacred, tendered

and ventured,

the only posture, bearings

and poses,

avowal to sustain, trust

to maintain.

Bestowed offers, joined

and gathered,

deduced and presumed, and

linked and coupled,

scrolls and parchments,

curlicues the ringlets,

not to be altered, renewed

and mended.

The birds, fowls, sparrows

and dunnocks,

murmur, mumble, and

babble,

sky shy to humble, to

beat the tumble.