Classic Poem

“THE WAY THE WORLD GOES ROUND”

I.

Spring and summer, joy and sorrow,
 Rose and lily and autumn leaf;
Laughter now, but tears to-morrow,
 Rapture followed fast by grief;
Grass, then snows upon the ground:
That's the way the world goes round!

II.

Peace for years and hedgerows hoary
 With the fragrant bloom of may;
War for months, and meadows gory;
 Stars that weep and turn away
From the reeking battle-ground:
That's the way the world goes round!

III.

Brave old world! It pauses never
 Soon the voices of to-day,
Lessening in the vast for ever,
 Shall be hushed and pass away:
But the world shall sweep along,
Chanting its old endless song.