John Godfrey Saxe — "Orpheus and Eurydice" (lines 21-34)

... Sir Orpheus lost his beautiful wife—
   Eurydice, who vanished one day
From Earth, in a very unpleasant way!
   It chanced, as near as I can determine,
Through one of those vertebrated vermin
   That lie in the grass so prettily curled,
Waiting to “snake” you out of the world!
   And the poets tell she went to—well—
A place where Greeks and Romans dwell
   After they burst their mortal shell;
A region that in deepest shade is,
   And known by the classical name of Hades,—
A different place from the terrible furnace
   Of Tartarus, down below Avernus. ...

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