To-morrow for the young the poets exploding like bombs,
The walks by the lake, the weeks of perfect communion;
To-morrow the bicycle races
Through the suburbs on summer evenings. But to-day the struggle.

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
“Spain,” ll. 81-92 (1937)

 
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