III + 

You tossed a blanket from the bed, + 

You lay upon your back, and waited; + 

You dozed, and watched the night revealing + 

The thousand sordid images + 

Of which your soul was constituted; + 

They flickered against the ceiling. + 

And when all the world came back + 

And the light crept up between the shutters, + 

And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, + 

You had such a vision of the street + 

As the street hardly understands; + 

Sitting along the bed’s edge, where + 

You curled the papers from your hair, + 

Or clasped the yellow soles of feet + 

In the palms of both soiled hands. + 