Chattering finch and water-fly <br />Are not merrier than I; <br />Here among the flowers I lie <br />Laughing everlastingly. <br />No; I may not tell the best; <br />Surely, friends, I might have guessed <br />Death was but the good King's jest, <br />It was hid so carefully.<br /><br />Gilbert Keith Chesterton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-skeleton-2/