<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358025" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Things to Come</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you have gone and I have gone<br>Beyond the ken of earthly things,<br>Yet watch the old race carry on<br>As to precarious life it clings,<br>Gazing together from afar,<br>Perched on some fixed or unfixed star,<br>We may find cause to meditate<br>Full thankfully upon our fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you shall say - or I shall say:<br>Those were man's great days, yours and mine,<br>Before his glories passed away,<br>His kingship fell into decline,<br>When he walked proudly o'er the earth<br>Questing his joy at its broad girth<br>Ere fear and folly claimed his soul<br>And bade him emulate the mole.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you shall gaze and I shall gaze<br>In pity from our distant star<br>And witness, thro' the cosmic haze<br>Earth's bosom scored by many a scar<br>Where in and out, in furtive haste<br>Strange, pallid little creatures raced,<br>Short-limbed, large-pawed, with small weak eyes<br>That feared to look up to the skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'll watch the timid little gnomes,<br>So altered now in shape from us,<br>Peer from their subterranean homes<br>Half vengefully, half curious;<br>Then, at the barking of a gun,<br>Back to their holes we'll watch them run.<br>And I shall say - or you shall say:<br>'These were earth's masters in our day.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358025" data-title="Things to Come de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="When you have gone and I have gone Beyond the ken of earthly things, Yet watch the old race carry on As to precarious life it clings, Gazing together from afar, Perched on some fixed or unfixed star, We may find cause to meditate Full thankfully u..."></div> </div> </div>

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