To feed their veins and souls with offal....

Yes,

I have had half a mind to blow my brains out

Sometimes; and I have gone from door to door

Ragged myself, trying to do something—

Crazy, I hope.—But what has this to do

With Spring? Because one half of humankind

Lives here in hell, shall not the other half

Do any more than just for conscience’ sake

Be miserable? Is this the way for us