Some other world: well, there’s the New—

Ah, joyless and ironic too!


Ay, Democracy

Lops, lops; but where’s her planted bed?

The future, what is that to her

Who vaunts she’s no inheritor?

’Tis in her mouth, not in her heart.

The past she spurns, though ’tis the past

From which she gets her saving part—