They have been dead a long time, but have not seemed to want putting in the ground.

That makes no change in them--not much, I mean.
If they sleep it's all right; if they don't sleep anything must be happiness after the life they have escaped.

'Happy are the dead' is written on all prison walls.
What I suffered in that first time no tongue can tell.

I can't bear now to think of it and put it down.

The solitary part of it was enough to drive any man mad that had been used to a free life.