Earth’s Decay

by Virgil — a poem card from Justes Mots

The poet laments Earth's decline from youthful vigor to exhausted age, describing diminished fertility, depleted resources, and humanity's inability to recognize their own responsibility for the decay. A philosophical meditation on entropy and environmental decline, attributed to Virgil, expressing sorrowful resignation to inevitable deterioration.

Ah! the good times, when Earth was young and new,
And, day by day, in strength and beauty grew;
When out of her bountiful bosom sprang
Each instant, some fresh wonder into view.

Instead, the mournful change! now, day by day,
The rule for the old Mother is decay.
Ill is the continual drain supplied,…

Themes: sympathy · grief · reflection