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Raindrops / On the crumbling walls / Of tradition, / Sunlight / Across mouldy pits / Of yesterday.
Oh, / Wise old men, / What do you say / About the fiddles / And the jazz / And the loud Hey! Hey!
About the dancing girls, / And the laughing boys, / And the brilliant lights, / And the blaring joys, / The firecracker days / And the nights --
Love-toys?
Staid old men, / What do you say / About sun-filled rain / Drowning yesterday?