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Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.
Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.
No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
