Keep In Step


No generation ought to try... To live its life again... Be-
cause the world will never be... the same as it was then...
There have to be some changes for... The good of all con-
cerned... And we can profit only by... the lessons we have
learned... However queer and cruel or...Considerate and
kind...The past is gone forever and... We should not
look behind... Except to be reminded of... The failures we
have known... And of the sins for which we should...En-
deavor to atone... But otherwise we ought to try... To keep in
step today... With every generation new... In all its work and
play.


James J. Metcalfe


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