I Saw A New World

I SAW a new world in my dream,  

Where all the folks alike did seem:  

There was no Child, there was no Mother,  

There was no Change, there was no Other.  

For everything was Same, the Same;  

There was no praise, there was no blame;  

There was neither Need nor Help for it;  

There was nothing fitting or unfit.  

Nobody laugh’d, nobody wept;  

None grew weary, so none slept;

There was nobody born, and nobody wed;  

This world was a world of the living-dead.  

I long’d to hear the Time-Clock strike  

In the world where people were all alike;  

I hated Same, I hated Forever;

I long’d to say Neither, or even Never.  

I long’d to mend, I long’d to make;  

I long’d to give, I long’d to take;  

I long’d for a change, whatever came after,  

I long’d for crying, I long’d for laughter.

At last I heard the Time-Clock boom,  

And woke from my dream in my little room;  

With a smile on her lips my Mother was nigh,  

And I heard the Baby crow and cry.  

And I thought to myself, How nice it is

For me to live in a world like this,  

Where things can happen, and clocks can strike,  

And none of the people are made alike;  

Where Love wants this, and Pain wants that,  

Where all our hearts want Tit for Tat

In the jumbles we make with our heads and our hands,  

In a world that nobody understands,  

But with work, and hope, and the right to call  

Upon Him who sees it and knows us all!