I’ve mortgaged merriment for such a sum That how I’ll pay it off I just can’t see; The value of all Pisa wouldn’t come To the amount that now is asked of me. Indeed, I’m so determined to be glum They’d have to grind my bones before a grin Defaced my facial muscles that are numb, And that’s the kind of broken state I’m in. The other day, deep in a dream, I came Close to an act that might have been some fun: I woke (of course!) to a great sense of shame. And so I mutter to myself: “I vow, If God allowed, I would kill anyone Who’s reading this and laughing at me now.”
I’ve mortgaged merriment for such a sum That how I’ll pay it off I just can’t see; The value of all Pisa wouldn’t come To the amount that now is asked of me. Indeed, I’m so determined to be glum They’d have to grind my bones before a grin Defaced my facial muscles that are numb, And that’s the kind of broken state I’m in. The other day, deep in a dream, I came Close to an act that might have been some fun: I woke (of course!) to a great sense of shame. And so I mutter to myself: “I vow, If God allowed, I would kill anyone Who’s reading this and laughing at me now.”