Glossa <br /><br />Time goes by, time comes along,<br />All is old and all is new;<br />What is right and what is wrong,<br />You must think and ask of you;<br />Have no hope and have no fear,<br />Waves that rise can never hold;<br />If they urge or if they cheer,<br />You remain aloof and cold. <br /><br />To our sight a lot will glisten,<br />Many sounds will reach our ear;<br />Who could take the time to listen<br />And remember all we hear?<br />Keep aside from all that patter,<br />Seek yourself, far from the throng <br />When with loud and idle clatter<br />Time goes by, time comes along.<br /><br />Nor forget the tongue of reason<br />Or its even scales depress<br />When the moment, changing season,<br />Wears the mask of happiness -<br />It is born of reason's slumber<br />And may last a wink as true:<br />For the one who knows its number<br />All is old and all is new.<br /><br />Be as to a play, spectator,<br />As the world unfolds before:<br />You will know the heart of matter<br />Should they act two parts or four;<br />When they cry or tear asunder<br />From your seat enjoy along<br />And you'll learn from art to wonder<br />What is right and what is wrong.<br /><br />Past and future, ever blending,<br />Are the twin sides of same page:<br />New start will begin with ending<br />When you know to learn from age;<br />All that was or be tomorrow<br />We have in the present, too;<br />But what's vain and futile sorrow<br />You must think and ask of you;<br /><br /><br />For the living cannot sever<br />From the means we've always had:<br />Now, as years ago, and ever,<br />Men are happy or are sad:<br />Other masks, same play repeated;<br />Diff'rent tongues, same words to hear;<br />Of your dreams so often cheated,<br />Have no hope and have no fear.<br /><br />Hope not when the villains cluster<br />By success and glory drawn:<br />Fools with perfect lack of luster<br />Will outshine Hyperion!<br />Fear it not, they'll push each other<br />To reach higher in the fold,<br />Do not side with them as brother,<br />Waves that rise can never hold.<br /><br />Sounds of siren songs call steady<br />Toward golden nets, astray;<br />Life attracts you into eddies<br />To change actors in the play;<br />Steal aside from crowd and bustle,<br />Do not look, seem not to hear<br />From your path, away from hustle,<br />If they urge or if they cheer;<br /><br />If they reach for you, go faster,<br />Hold your tongue when slanders yell;<br />Your advice they cannot master,<br />Don't you know their measure well?<br />Let them talk and let them chatter,<br />Let all go past, young and old;<br />Unattached to man or matter,<br />You remain aloof and cold.<br /><br />You remain aloof and cold<br />If they urge or if they cheer;<br />Waves that rise can never hold,<br />Have no hope and have no fear;<br />You must think and ask of you<br />What is right and what is wrong;<br />All is old and all is new,<br />Time goes by, time comes along.