Lay long talking with my wife about ordering things in our family, and then rose and to my office, there collecting an alphabet for my Navy Manuscript, which, after a short dinner, I returned to and by night perfected to my great content. So to other business till 9 at night, and so home to supper and to bed.
lay long
talking about order
a rose collecting
an alphabet
night perfected
at night
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 4 March 1662/63.