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Five Criticisms - II.

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(On a certain goddess, acclaimed as "new" but known in Babylon.)     I saw the assembled artists of our day         Waiting for light, for music and for song.     A woman stood before them, fresh as May         And beautiful; but, in that modish throng,     None heeded her. They said, "In our first youth         Surely, long since, your hair was touched with grey."     "I do not change," she answered. "I am Truth."         "Old and banal," they sneered, and turned away.     Then came a formless thing, with breasts dyed scarlet.         The roses in her hair were green and blue.             "I am new," she said. "I change, and                 Death knows why."     Then with the eyes and gesture of a harlot         She led them all forth, whinneying, "New, how new!             Tell us your name!" She answered, "The                 New Lie."

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