Unutterable filth is in the air;

You're much depressed, e'en in the fire-side ingle,

The hag dyspepsia seems everywhere.

Your wild disgust in vain you try to bridle,

Mad as March hare or hydrophobic dog,

You feel, in fact, intensely suicidal:

Such things befall us in a London fog!


The most Loyal of Cup-bearers.—A blind man's dog.