The morning comes to consciousness
Of faint stale smells of beer
From the sawdust-trampled street
With all its muddy feet that press
To early coffee-stands.
With the other masquarades
That times resumes,
One thinks of all the hands
That are raising dingy shades
In a thousand furnished rooms.
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by T. S. Eliot, 1917
