Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Earth’s Holocaust"

ONCE UPON A TIME- but whether in the time past or time to come, is a matter of little or no moment- this wide world had become so overburthened with an accumulation of worn-out trumpery, that the inhabitants determined to rid themselves of it by a general bonfire.

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