"White as a winding sheet,
Masks blowing down the street:
Moscow, Paris London, Vienna -- all are undone.
The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling,
Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling,
The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking."
-- Edith Sitwell (b. 1887-09-07, d. 1964-12-09) "The Last Gallop" (1922)