[00:00.200] Nightfall, cold eye - neither disheartens
[00:04.564] These goatish tragedians who
[00:06.893] Hawk misfortune like figs and chickens
[00:09.445] And, plaintiff against each day, decry
[00:12.740] Nature's partial, haphazard thumb.
[00:15.220] Under white wall and Moorish window
[00:18.409] Grief's honest grimace, debased by time,
[00:21.745] Caricatures itself and thrives
[00:24.828] Extorting pity's coin. At random
[00:27.797] A beggar stops among eggs and loaves,
[00:30.271] Props a leg-stump upon a crutch,
[00:32.774] Jiggles his tin cup at the goodwives.
[00:35.556] By lack and loss these beggars encroach
[00:38.772] On spirits tenderer than theirs,
[00:41.200] Suffering-toughened beyond the fetch
[00:43.518] Of finest conscience.
[00:45.346] Nightfall obscures
[00:47.531] The bay's sheer, extravagant blue,
[00:50.295] White house and almond grove. The beggars
[00:53.826] Outlast their evilest star, wryly
[00:57.200] And with a perfidious verve
[00:59.334] Baffle the dark, the pitying eye.

Nightfall, cold eye - neither disheartens
These goatish tragedians who
Hawk misfortune like figs and chickens
And, plaintiff against each day, decry
Nature's partial, haphazard thumb.
Under white wall and Moorish window
Grief's honest grimace, debased by time,
Caricatures itself and thrives
Extorting pity's coin. At random
A beggar stops among eggs and loaves,
Props a leg-stump upon a crutch,
Jiggles his tin cup at the goodwives.
By lack and loss these beggars encroach
On spirits tenderer than theirs,
Suffering-toughened beyond the fetch
Of finest conscience.
Nightfall obscures
The bay's sheer, extravagant blue,
White house and almond grove. The beggars
Outlast their evilest star, wryly
And with a perfidious verve
Baffle the dark, the pitying eye.