Rearrange a "Wife's" affection!

Rearrange a "Wife's" affection! When they dislocate my Brain! Amputate my freckled Bosom! Make me bearded like a man!

Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness -- Blush, my unacknowledged clay -- Seven years of troth have taught thee More than Wifehood every may!

Love that never leaped its socket -- Trust entrenched in narrow pain -- Constancy thro' fire -- awarded -- Anguish -- bare of anodyne!

Burden -- borne so far triumphant -- None suspect me of the crown, For I wear the "Thorns" till Sunset -- Then -- my Diadem put on.

Big my Secret but it's bandaged -- It will never get away Till the Day its Weary Keeper Leads it through the Grave to thee.