“Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.”

—  T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: Selected Poems

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