Let that which is to come

Let that which is to come be as it may,

Darkness, extinction, justice, life intense

The flies are happy in the summer day,

Flies will be happy many summers hence.

Time with his antique breeds that built the Sphynx

Time with her men to come whose wings will tower,

Poured and will pour, not as the wise man thinks,

But with blind force, to each his little hour.

And when the hour has struck, comes death or change,

Which, whether good or ill, we cannot tell,

But the blind planet will wander through her range

Bearing men like us who will serve as well.

The sun will rise, the winds that ever move

Will blow our dust that once were men in love.