Let us not, when making plans, forget
The way the world works counter to all thought:
How what mankind erects is alway fought
By nature's entropy, and thereby set,
Often at naught. But do not let us let
This recollection wreck us. We have bought
Time for ourselves before: if there is aught
The past can teach, it is that our regret
Comes more from failure to have planned than plans;
So though we recollect things can go wrong,
Let us not only sing that heavy song,
Whose burden is so heavy that it scans
Hard on the ear. Let us be merry too
And do those things that we have planned to do.
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