
i am a child of the Seventh Decade
born 5 years after the Birth of the Republic
part of the generation that shall bear witness
to the end of a millenium
part of a generation that shall embrace
the birth of a new millenium
i am a child of the City of the Lion
i am part of the species
of Man
we who hang under the noose of doom
in the hands of our own device
Shall we lament
Shall we bear witness
Shall we await
the death of mankind
we who live in the throes of this Millennium
we who live now in the Ninth Decade
let us embrace
the next Millenium
if ...
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Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.
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Never Give All the Heart by WB Yeats
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When young, Lose your Heart.
When older, Lose your Soul.
When older still, Lose your Mind
When ancient to the world, Then lose your life.
Then you gain back your Life.
By Lau Kok Peng, Eric