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— Future-Vision —

Pretend that you’re dead and gone, siting on a star,
Regretting there the emptiness of your memoir,
Thinking: If only I could live it all again!
Fancy yourself not here, then smile because you are.



— This Rare Earth —

Oh never has there been a time more rare,
But that I could truly say “I was there
On that Heavenly sphere of blue and green;
Yes, I was there in life extraordinaire!”