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Vague lament over torment and a London life
The passage describes a speaker's torment by worldly confusion and a vivid metaphor of voles and a railway whistle as hellish imagery. It notes Carlyle spending the last forty-seven years in London without compulsion to remain there, hinting at his chosen, restless urban exile.
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