NOTHING MORE WILL EVER BE THE SAME

copyright (C) 1983 by Ernest Clark 
  (this version is later than any in print as of 1990)

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See the frightened creatures, hiding through the night
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One sees peril, and screams out his fright.
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Another hears the crying, and reads its meaning right:
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That call, and no other, means a leopard is in sight!
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  And with time, more than "leopard" leaps from tongue to tongue,
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  As with Language do the old instruct the young,
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  And the lessons are not lost now when their learners leave the game..
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Nothing more will ever be the same,
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Nothing more will ever be the same.


See the angry brilliance leaping ever higher!
Everyone is panicking, running from the fire.
Behind is left a wasteland which no-one could admire,
But one brave soul goes poking through the pyre.
  Mast'ring fear, he takes a burning stick in hand,
  And he likes the warmth escaping from this priceless brand,
  No longer Demon Fire but a tool, this flame.....
Nothing more will ever be the same,
Nothing more will ever be the same.

See the picture in the sun, drying in the clay.
Baking hard, preserving what its maker wants to say.
Someone sees its permanence and starting from that day
A man could make his meaning clear though he be far away.
  And the messages proliferate from age to age,
  On bricks, and then papyrus, now the printed page !
  Mem'ry need no longer guard what writings now proclaim....
Nothing more will ever be the same,
Nothing more will ever be the same.

See the man just sitting, on face a distant stare,
Master Isaac Newton, without apparent care.
Wondering why apples fall but moons stay in the air,
Pondering intensely, seeking beauty bare.
  In the armies of equations marching through his mind,
  Where calculus and Cosmos are at last combin'd,
  The laws the heavens move by soon will bear his name....
Nothing more will ever be the same,
Nothing more will ever be the same.

See the footstep in the dust more than desert dry,
Standing by that Eagle which men to the Moon did fly!
Though heroes speak of beauty, there's a deeper reason why
Humanity has broken free to climb beyond the sky!
  For a destiny has moved us since the first man spoke,
  Rise or sleep forever, cries that voice he woke,
  And now with Earth a footstool there's a Universe to claim.....
And...nothing more will ever be the same,
      Nothing more will ever be the same !