1955
Anger and envy much in vogue.
Yet this is the welfare state,
Health and contentment guaranteed.
Nature smiles; only historians
Wake in the night. One or two
Wise men make their wills.
And they do well. An age of self
Is always mother
To another age of hell.
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by John Fowles
from Poems: John Fowles
Ecco Press, 1973