The ageless face of time Smiles carefree and is gone And in its wake leaves nothing Save future yet to come And out of fire and time A world is born and lives A world still young and virgin Its face yet to be scarred And they created man And he rose out of the dust of the Earth The misty dawn of creation And to him they bestowed eternity The all-meaning circle No beginning, no end No beginning, no end The stage is set for man The door to life revealed And in his hands, tomorrow And in his mind, the key