I SAW a new world in my dream, <br />Where all the folks alike did seem: <br />There was no Child, there was no Mother, <br />There was no Change, there was no Other. <br /> <br />For everything was Same, the Same; <br />There was no praise, there was no blame; <br />There was neither Need nor Help for it; <br />There was nothing fitting or unfit. <br /> <br />Nobody laugh’d, nobody wept; <br />None grew weary, so none slept; <br />There was nobody born, and nobody wed; <br />This world was a world of the living-dead. <br /> <br />I long’d to hear the Time-Clock strike <br />In the world where people were all alike; <br />I hated Same, I hated Forever; <br />I long’d to say Neither, or even Never. <br /> <br />I long’d to mend, I long’d to make; <br />I long’d to give, I long’d to take; <br />I long’d for a change, whatever came after, <br />I long’d for crying, I long’d for laughter. <br /> <br />At last I heard the Time-Clock boom, <br />And woke from my dream in my little room; <br />With a smile on her lips my Mother was nigh, <br />And I heard the Baby crow and cry. <br /> <br />And I thought to myself, How nice it is <br />For me to live in a world like this, <br />Where things can happen, and clocks can strike, <br />And none of the people are made alike; <br /> <br />Where Love wants this, and Pain wants that, <br />Where all our hearts want Tit for Tat <br />In the jumbles we make with our heads and our hands, <br />In a world that nobody understands, <br />But with work, and hope, and the right to call <br />Upon Him who sees it and knows us all!<br /><br />William Brighty Rands<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-saw-a-new-world/
