There was a time...

There was a time when all waters ran clean
and fish leaped from every stream
to catch the hovering mayfly.
There was a time when birds and bees
stirred summer air with wings of ease,
but now that time has gone by.
The time I've known, and seen, and felt,
has been a time when man have dealt
with the world like a belligerent child.
In the name of the great money race,
they've taken Earth's pristine face,
and with muck, and smoke, and oil, defiled.
Still I pray for the time to come,
when recleansed water sparkles in the sun,
and the moon shines down sublime
on a world that was lost and found,
and we can all feel justified and proud,
to tell of the passing of that former time.