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Quotes from For the Time Being — W. H. Auden

1907–1973 England

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My Dear One is mine as mirrors are lonely.

For the Time Being (1944)

Come to our bracing desert
Where eternity is eventful,
For the weather-glass
Is set at Alas,
The thermometer at Resentful.

For the Time Being (1944)

Come to our well-run desert
Where anguish arrives by cable,
And the deadly sins
May be bought in tins
With instructions on the label.

For the Time Being (1944)

At Dirty Dick's and Sloppy Joe's
We drank our liquor straight,
Some went upstairs with Margery,
And some, alas, with Kate.

For the Time Being (1944)

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