Artist: W. H. Auden
Lyrics of Artist: W. H. Auden
  1. [Lyric] September 1 1939 (W. H. Auden)

    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. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole...Learn More
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  2. [Lyric] The Two (W. H. Auden)

    You are the town and we are the clock. We are the guardians of the gate in the rock. The Two. On your left and on your right In the day and in the night, We are watching you. Wiser not to ask just what has occurred To them who disobeyed our word; To those We were the whirlpool, we were the reef, We were the formal nightmare, grief And the unlucky...Learn More
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