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Robert W Service - The Law Of Laws
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If we could roll back History
       A century, let`s say,
And start from there, I`m sure that we
       Would find things as to-day:
In all creation`s cosmic range
       No vestige of a change.
       
Turn back a thousand years, the same
       Unchangement we would view;
Cause and Effect their laws proclaim,
       The truest of the true,
And in life`s mechanistic groove
       The Universe would move.

Grim is the grip of the Machine
       And everything we do
Designed implacably has been
       Since earth was virgin new:
We strut our parts as they were writ,—
       That`s all there is to it.

Curse on such thinking! let us play
       At Free Will, though we be
The gnatlike creatures of the day,
       The dupes of Destiny . . .
The merle is merry in the may—
       Tommorow`s time to pray.
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