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Robert W Service - Brave New World
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One spoke: "Come, let us gaily go
With laughter, love and lust,
Since in a century or so
We`ll all be boneyard dust.
When unborn shadows hold the screen,
(Our betters, I`ll allow)
`Twill be as if we`d never been,
A hundred years from now. 

When we have played life`s lively game
Right royally we`ll rot,
And not a soul will care a damn
The why or how we fought;
To grub for gold or grab for fame
Or raise a holy row,
It will be all the bloody same
A hundred years from now." 

Said I: "Look! I have built a tower
Upon you lonely hill,
Designed to be a daughter`s dower,
Yet when my heart is still,
The stone I set with horny hand
And salty sweat of brow,
A record of my strength will sand
A hundred years from now. 

"There`s nothing lost and nothing vain
In all this world so wide;
The ocean hoards each drop of rain
To swell its sweeping tide;
The desert seeks each grain of sand
It`s empire to endow,
And we a bright brave world have planned
A hundred years from now. 

And all we are and all we do
Will bring that world to be;
Our strain and pain let us not rue,
Though other eyes shall see;
For other hearts will bravely beat
And lips will sing of how
We strove to make life sane and sweet
A hundred years from now.
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