FOGS

“You melancholy fogs of winter roll

Your pestilential sorrow o’er my soul,

And swathe my heart with your long winding sheet,

And drench the livid leaves beneath my feet,

While far away upon the heaven’s bounds,

Under the sleeping plain’s wet wadding, sounds

A tired, lamenting angelus that dies

With faint, frail echoes in the empty skies,

So lonely, poor, and timid that a rook,