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I Saw A New World

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AW a new world in my dream,  Where all the folks alike did seem:  There was no Child, there was no Mother,  There was no Change, there was no Other.    For everything was Same, the Same;  There was no praise, there was no blame;  There was neither Need nor Help for it;  There was nothing fitting or unfit.    Nobody laugh’d, nobody wept;  None grew weary, so none slept;

There was nobody born, and nobody wed;  This world was a world of the living-dead.    I long’d to hear the Time-Clock strike  In the world where people were all alike;  I hated Same,

I hated Forever;

I long’d to say Neither, or even Never.    I long’d to mend,

I long’d to make;  I long’d to give,

I long’d to take;  I long’d for a change, whatever came after,  I long’d for crying,

I long’d for laughter.  At last I heard the Time-Clock boom,  And woke from my dream in my little room;  With a smile on her lips my Mother was nigh,  And I heard the Baby crow and cry.    And I thought to myself,

How nice it is For me to live in a world like this,  Where things can happen, and clocks can strike,  And none of the people are made alike;    Where Love wants this, and Pain wants that,  Where all our hearts want Tit for

In the jumbles we make with our heads and our hands,  In a world that nobody understands,  But with work, and hope, and the right to call  Upon Him who sees it and knows us all!

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William Brighty Rands

William Brighty Rands (24 December 1823, Chelsea, Middlesex — 23 April 1882, East Dulwich, London) was a British writer and one of the major aut…

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