When Stretch'd On One's Bed
Jane Austen
1775 to 1817
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When stretch'd on one's bed
With a fierce-throbbing head,
______ precludes alike thought or repose,
How little one cares
______ the grandest affairs
That may busy the world as ______ goes!
How little one feels
For the waltzes and ______
Of our Dance-loving friends at a Ball!
How slight one's concern
To conjecture or learn
What their flounces or ______ may befall.
How little one minds
If a company ______
On the best that the Season affords!
How short ______ one's muse
O'er the Sauces and Stews,
Or the Guests, be they Beggars or Lords.
How little the Bells,
______ they Peels, toll they Knells,
Can attract our attention ______ Ears!
The Bride may be married,
The Corse may ______ carried
And touch nor our hopes nor our fears.
______ own bodily pains
Ev'ry faculty chains;
We can feel ______ no subject besides.
Tis in health and in ease
______ the power must seize
For our friends and our ______ to provide.