<h2><SPAN name="poem15"></SPAN>THE WORLD GROWS BETTER</h2>
<p class="poetry">Oh! the earth is full of sinning<br/>
And of trouble and of woe,<br/>
But the devil makes an inning<br/>
Every time we say it’s so.<br/>
And the way to set him scowling,<br/>
And to put him back a pace,<br/>
Is to stop this stupid growling,<br/>
And to look things in the face.</p>
<p class="poetry">If you glance at history’s pages,<br/>
In all lands and eras known,<br/>
You will find the buried ages<br/>
Far more wicked than our own.<br/>
As you scan each word and letter.<br/>
You will realise it more,<br/>
That the world to-day is better<br/>
Than it ever was before.</p>
<p class="poetry">There is much that needs amending<br/>
In the present time, no doubt;<br/>
There is right that needs amending,<br/>
There is wrong needs crushing out.<br/>
And we hear the groans and curses<br/>
Of the poor who starve and die,<br/>
While the men with swollen purses<br/>
In the place of hearts go by.</p>
<p class="poetry">But in spite of all the trouble<br/>
That obscures the sun to-day,<br/>
Just remember it was double<br/>
In the ages passed away.<br/>
And those wrongs shall all be righted,<br/>
Good shall dominate the land,<br/>
For the darkness now is lighted<br/>
By the torch in Science’s hand.</p>
<p class="poetry">Forth from little motes in Chaos,<br/>
We have come to what we are;<br/>
And no evil force can stay us—<br/>
We shall mount from star to star,<br/>
We shall break each bond and fetter<br/>
That has bound us heretofore;<br/>
And the earth is surely better<br/>
Than it ever was before.</p>
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