It's true we've got our work to do;
We must have you to fasten to
But don't let that unsettle you!
Never you mind!
Quake on!
The Child of the Age, disciple of the ancient Omar, sings a bacchanalian ditty, one of those flower-that-once has-blown-for-ever-dies songs.
What care I for earthquakes?
A fig for their sorrow!
They're nothing to heartaches!
Come! Drink to Tomorrow!
With women and song, like a Sheik in his tent.
I'll live like a Sultan until I'm all spent.
The ruminating Philosopher loses himself in a rapture upon the instability of things in general and the comforting permanence which underlies all flux and change--even the violent, upheavals of earthquakes:
The old Earth trembles; hearts are filled with awe
As long ago they were when Nature's Law
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