Toads - Deluxe

Summer days

Summer days are here

Summer days

Some are days like these.

Dreary days

Dreary days like these

I have not the courage

To rise up before my fellow-men as a prophet,

And I bow to their reproach

That I offer them no consolation:

For at bottom that is what they are all demanding

The wildest revolutionaries no less passionately

Than the most virtuous believers.

The fateful question for the human species

Seems to me to be whether and to what extent

Their cultural development will succeed in mastering

The disturbance of their communal life