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Why should I care for the Ages / Because they are old and grey? / To me, like sudden laughter, / The stars are fresh and gay; / The world is a daring fancy, / And finished yesterday.
Why should I bow to the Ages / Because they were drear and dry? / Slow trees and ripening meadows / For me go roaring by, / A living charge, a struggle / To escalade the sky.
The eternal suns and systems, / Solid and silent all, / To me are stars of an instant, / Only the fires that fall / From God's good rocket, rising / On this night of carnival.