The vacuity and the emptiness,

The lack of confidence,

The frozen fields of phantasy

Oppressing the deadened sense,

The sky one drab grey of clouds,

Unhurrying, unceasing rain,

No core of living consciousness

Quickening the heavy brain,

A torpor of body and of heart,

A palsy of the soul,

Under an ocean's continuous dumb

Monotonous roll.