So, frustrated: as who brainsick made pact

Erst with the overhanging cataract

To deafen him, yet still distinguished plain

His own blood's measured clicking at his brain.

To finish. One declining Autumn day—

Few birds about the heaven chill and gray,

No wind that cared trouble the tacit woods—

He sauntered home complacently, their moods

According, his and nature's. Every spark

Was found and is lost.