Dikt: 11/9. Santiago, Chile. New York, USA.

September 1:st 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.

   
        W.H.Auden

        Från Melville House blog.