September 1 1939 ------ September 25th 2019
From a poem by W.H. Auden (thanks to Bruce L for the tip-off on this)
September 1, 1939
I sit in
one of the dives
On Fifty-second
Street
Uncertain and
afraid
As the clever
hopes expire
Of a low
dishonest decade:
Waves of
anger and fear
Circulate over
the bright
And darkened
lands of the earth,
Obsessing our
private lives;
The
unmentionable odour of death
Offends the
September night.
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