1to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; which lines from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" are an allusion to these verses? there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands for the yellow smoke that slides along the street, rubbing its back upon the window-panes; and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of a toast and tea. there will be time, there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;