Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. (Matthew Arnold)

Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.

Matthew Arnold

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