Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it roles defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city ... Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards .... ".
霧在河之上游，飄浮在綠洲和草坪之間；霧在河之下游，它滾過碼頭和這個大城（也是一個髒城）的水邊垃圾堆。… … 當格林威治那些領養老金的老年人圍爐哮喘時，霧也出現在他們眼裡和喉內… …」