Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13

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Subject: [Leica] Auden's verse with admiration.
From: "Wang, Albert" <Albert.Wang@ibx.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:22:21 -0400
 
That's definitely a very prophetic verse... dang I underestimated Auden's
genius.

- --- tm <leicar8@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> - W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939.
> 
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