OH, the dingy winter days!

Oh, the woven blues and greys!

Oh, the drizzles and the puddles and the freezing!

Nippy Paris to New York

Is a sinker to a cork

Superstition and tradition all her pleasing.

Oh, the glacial Gallic gloom

In a candle-darkened room

Sends the spirit of a Gothamite to zero

When I found the fire dead