A Weight with Needles on the pounds —
To push, and pierce, besides —
That if the Flesh resist the Heft —
The puncture — coolly tries —
That not a pore be overlooked
Of all this Compound Frame —
As manifold for Anguish —
As Species — be — for name —
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All things suffer.