I have not loved the world, not the world me;
I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd
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I have not loved the world, not the world me;
I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd
To its idolatries a patient knee.

'Tis a very good world we live in
To spend, and to lend, and to give in;
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'Tis a very good world we live in
To spend, and to lend, and to give in;
But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.

This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.

This is the way the world ends ... Not with a bang but with a whimper.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

O world as God has made it! All is beauty.

O world as God has made it! All is beauty.

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

But they will maintain the state of the world;
And all their desire is in the work of their read more

But they will maintain the state of the world;
And all their desire is in the work of their craft.

We can only change the world by changing men.

We can only change the world by changing men.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born
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Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.