“Society is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are dead and those who are to be born.“
Burke called society a partnership
In science, art, virtue, all perfection
And thus it must require the membership
Of many an earlier generation.
Our aims don’t ever reach fruition
Within a season, not one haw or hip
Is ripe for either harvest or rejection.
Burke called society a partnership
And the serving of a long apprenticeship
Allowing for sagacious intervention
From voices past, in their instructorship
In science, art, virtue, all perfection.
Society’s not changed by mere election
We guard against the ills of brinksmanship.
Society’s a link a great connection
And thus it must require the membership
Of those as yet unborn, custodianship
Means taking care, not mad destruction.
We needs must spend much time in contemplation
Of many an earlier generation,
Their thinking, and put aside frustration
And childish annoyance, at their wardship.
To teach the future of their wisdom is our obligation,
To keep preserved, in tact, curated, the protectorship
Burke called society
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