We need much more beauty brought into the world,
To see scores of modern achievements unfurled;
We need in the place of so much that is dire,
Beautiful paintings that can’t but inspire.
Wonderful books which give pleasure and hope
And help those who need inspiration to cope.
Music designed to give light to the soul
Ought to be every composer’s main goal.
Buildings which show what skilled craftsmen can do,
Should be the focus for everything new.
Quality should be the watchword for all
So standards will constantly rise and not fall.
Men hundreds of years ago, far in the past,
Produced an enormous amount that would last
Of music and literature, buildings and art,
Which even today can still pleasure impart.
But now most production is banal and poor,
Lasting for just a few years and no more;
Things won’t be around in five hundred years; time
Described by the future as simply sublime;
So not only isn’t all beautiful now,
We won’t with real treasures the future endow.
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