Classic Poem

We cannot retrace our steps, going forward may be the same as going backwards. We cannot retrace our steps, retrace our steps. All my long life, all my life, we do not retrace our steps, all my long life, but
(A silence a long silence) But — we do not retrace our steps, all my long life, and here, here we are here, in marble and gold, did I say gold, yes I said gold, in marble and gold and where —

(A silence) Where is where. In my long life of effort and strife, dear life, life is strife, in my long life, it will not come and go, I tell you so, it will stay it will pay but

(A long silence) But do I want what we have got, has it not gone, what made it live, has it not gone because now it is had, in my long life in my long life

(Silence) Life is strife, I was a martyr all my life not to what I won but to what was done.

(Silence) Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

(Silence) My long life, my long life.