Would ye build that generations
Yet to be may call you great?
Would ye have your lives’ creations
O’er the ages tower elate?
Hearken then a world-old moral,—
Abnegation, meek and pure.
Build as doth the lowly coral,—
Give yourselves. That shall endure.
-”A Lesson,” by Ruby Archer
What are you building, like the precious coral, for future generations?