The Logic of Progress

Can progress pause? We know from this prediction
Girls will be shaved like convicts from conviction
Or holy faith, when every happy hoyden
Shares a monastic tonsure with Miss Royden.

To rest even here were retrograde and dull:
Baldness will crawl over the female skull,
Till save for one faint streak the scalp is bare
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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