The lust for luxury
All these profits worldly
The wants of treasury
And the longing lechery
The World as you see, Oh! Listen, listen ye
The limousine's floridity
And the ornamental embroidery
The carnivals, festivals and their glee
And the acreage of jollity - joviality
The World as you see, Oh! Listen, listen ye
All this a sombre truth
But yet not a sorry you
The interim tide of ecstasy!
This all is to delude
The World as you see, Oh! Listen, listen ye
Thou shalt not indulge thy mortal bliss!
Though a dulcet dream, but momentary
A bewitch to beguile, a dreadful chicanery
A deception to assess, assess of contrast, contrast thy eternity
The World as you see, Oh! Listen, listen ye
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