John Gould Fletcher - Tragic Night lyrics

Rain, and a glare of lamps set in the rain, Where seekers for numb brains and deadened wills Stagger like helpless idiots through the pain Of vain remembrance of increasing ills. The dazzle of light in the darkness thickly fills The breadth of street with long and snake-like stain Of false gold, which the weak sight blinds and k**s, While through it all come slipping by amain, Like vast black birds of prey with eyes aglow, The automobiles, mid shrieks and howls of lust; No deeper tragedy the earth can know Than this, its night of pain and rain and rust, Where d**h is only d**h and nothingness.