To Live For A Time Close To

The World Was Arrogant And Self-satisfied, But Behind All This Confidence There Was An Uneasy Sense Of Impending Disaster. The Old Creeds, Both Religious And Political, Were Largely In The Process Of Dissolution, But We Did Not Realise The Fact, And Therefore Did Not Look For New Foundations.

London Is Like The Tropical Bush -- If You Don't Exercise Constant Care The Jungle, In The Shape Of The Slums, Will Break In.

Young Girls Passed Me With Romance Still In Their Eyes, And Others, A Little Older, With The Romance Dead.

If Those Extra-social Brains Are So Potent, Why After All Do They Effect So Little? A Dull Police-officer, With The Machine Behind Him, Can Afford To Laugh At Most Experiments In Anarchy.

And Where The Deepest Current Crawls/ Like Thistledown The Dainty Fly Falls./ Then From The Depths A Silver Gleam/ Quick Flashes, Like A Jewel Bright./ Up Through The Waters Of The Stream/ An Instant Visible To Sight/ As Lightning Cleaves To Sombre Sky/ A Rainbow Rises To The Fly.