Crumbling is not an instant's Act
   A fundamental pause
 Dilapidation's processes
   Are organized Decays --

'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
   A Cuticle of Dust
 A Borer in the Axis
   An Elemental Rust --

Ruin is formal -- Devil's work
   Consecutive and slow--
 Fail in an instant, no man did
   Slipping -- is Crashe's law --