Exhaustion tires me; dropped my task scholastic;
Heavy the eyelids droop, and long to close;
Meanwhile the dogs play, frantic scrambling spastic.
How tired I am: no Mayan ruin or Aztec
Match the ruination of my ill repose.
Exhaustion tires me; dropped my task scholastic
Of weary study: nadir to bombastic,
Yet I persist, despite a need to doze.
Meanwhile the dogs play, frantic scrambling spastic.
Were mine a monk’s life, cloistered, calm, monastic,
Study were well. With worldly cares and woes,
Exhaustion tires me. Dropped my task scholastic,
The book has almost fallen, slipped; fantastic
This anthropology depicts tableaux.
Meanwhile the dogs play, frantic scrambling spastic.
Droop weary eyes; the text crawls periphrastic,
As, yawning, mind meanders from the prose.
Exhaustion tires me; dropped my task scholastic;
Meanwhile the dogs play, frantic scrambling spastic.