If You Can Wait And Not Be

When The Man Waked Up He Said, 'what Is Wild Dog Doing Here?' And The Woman Said, 'his Name Is Not Wild Dog Any More, But The First Friend, Because He Will Be Our Friend For Always And Always And Always.'

There's A Legion That Never Was 'listed, That Carries No Colours Or Crest, But, Split In A Thousand Detachments, Is Breaking The Road For The Rest.

Nations Have Passed Away And Left No Traces, And History Gives The Naked Cause Of It - One Single Simple Reason In All Cases; They Fell Because Their Peoples Were Not Fit.

All The People Like Us Are We, And Everyone Else Is They.

There Rise Her Timeless Capitals Of Empires Daily Born, Whose Plinths Are Laid At Midnight And Whose Streets Are Packed At Morn; And Here Come Tired Youths And Maids That Feign To Love Or Sin In Tones Like Rusty Razor Blades To Tunes Like Smitten Tin.