It is time for the destruction of error.
The chairs are being brought in from the garden,
The summer talk stopped on that savage coast
Before the storms, after the guests and birds:
In sanatoriums they laugh less and less,
Less certain of cure; and the loud madman
Sinks now into a more terrible calm.
现在到了摧毁谬误的时候。
几把椅子从花园搬回屋里，
那片荒凉海岸上的夏日闲谈已经结束，
风暴将至，客人与候鸟已经离去；
疗养院里的病人笑得越来越少，
对痊愈越来越没有把握；
那个喧闹的疯子也沉入一种更可怕的平静。

W. H. Auden 《Poem IV》1929