Farewell To Innocence

Read this if you have the time, I'm compelled these words to write-- Seems my parent's age of innocence Is drawing near, the light. For the poetry and cinema, And the songs like "Stardust," too-- Are turning to a memory And fading from our view. But it was an age of innocence! I knew it as a boy. Where has gone the happiness; And how escaped the joy? Still the golden age is dying And it whispered with a breathe-- "Don't let us pass away in vain, And dye a common death." So forgive me if I prattle on But it seems the thing to do-- I placed flowers on the old today, And will now endure, the new. Farewell ole age of innocence, My kind and gentle friend-- Till Buddy and the Teddy Bear Take the stage and sing again!