You must soon come again. Good-bye, good-bye. . . .”

He tottered forth, full of the melancholy

That comes of surfeit, and began to walk

Slowly towards Oxford Street. The brazen sky

Burned overhead. Beneath his feet the stones

Were a grey incandescence, and his bones

Melted within him, and his bowels yearned.


VI

THE crowd, the crowd—oh, he could almost cry