’Tiz Now The Time

Do you remember yesteryear

When all the world was bright?

Think you back to days gone by

When all about seemed right?

Where is that youth who longed to seek,

To question and to know

Of all that could be, was, or is

In heaven and below ?

The weight of life has bent you down

With worry and with care

As you took up the scythe and plow

And raised a family fair.

At last, at last, the time is come

For you to lift your eye

And dream once more of knowing all,

Of earth and of the sky .

The body now is nae so quick

Yet mind is ever bright

T’will light another year or two

Ere comes the endless night.

Tread now those paths you longed to roam

When you were but a child.

Go! Mysteries solve and Answers seek

And tame the Beasties wild!