44 Here Comes Coy to Save the Motherland

[alice wellintown]

But it is the **young** couples who are celebrated in Romance that we,
the Americans--because of some Puritanical & Enlightenment Revival--no
longer like to see together.

As I said, Nature is determined to prick them in their Hearts & Crotches.

Whan that Aprill with his shoures sote
The droghte° of Marche hath perced to the rote,
And bathed every veyne° in swich licour,
Of which vertu° engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus° eek with his swete breeth
Inspired° hath in every holt° and heeth
The tendre croppes,° and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne;
And smale fowles° maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open yë
So priketh hem Nature in hir corages

So, into the wood the happy young couple go, nature, on a midsummer's
night, a spring time comedy or romance will prick and celebrate.

But America, because she is, as Henry Adams notes, ashamed of the
terrible fecund power of the Nature/Virgin, and because America has
turned ever more to Franklin frugality and straight line list making
..

{What was] no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees -
Those dying generations - at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.

has been lost; the Machine in the Garden, as miraculously as the
serpent and with rhetoric no Man of Reason, but only one of intuition,
imagination, insight, may resist, speaks in tongues.