To do some little good before I die; <br />To wake some echoes to a loftier theme; <br />To spend my life's last store of industry <br />On thoughts less vain than Youth's discordant dream; <br />To endow the world's grief with some counter--scheme <br />Of logical hope which through all time should lighten <br />The burden of men's sorrow and redeem <br />Their faces' paleness from the tears that whiten; <br /> <br />To take my place in the world's brotherhood <br />As one prepared to suffer all its fate; <br />To do and be undone for sake of good, <br />And conquer rage by giving love for hate; <br />That were a noble dream, and so to cease, <br />Scorned by the proud but with the poor at peace.<br /><br />Wilfrid Scawen Blunt<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-dream-of-good/
