| 1 | Pity the Lost Generation. | |
| 2 | It' s you that led me out of the loneliness when I was lost in my mind. | |
| 3 | We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed but not in despair. | |
| 4 | But Tom remembers his love, Summer, as a series of joys and bafflements. | |
| 5 | There was a general feeling of excitement and perplexity: what lay beneath this atmosphere? |