T.S. Eliot on Asphalt and Golf Balls

In the land of lobelias and tennis flannels
The rabbit shall burrow and the thorn revisit,
The nettle shall flourish on the gravel court.
And the wind shall say: “Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.”

— in T.S. Eliot’s Choruses from “The Rock”