poemDeathOfFatherTime.java

//This program writes to the screen a poem by Gideon Cooper
//This program is written by the man who calls himself Gideon Cooper
public class poemDeathOfFatherTime
{
         public static void main(String args[])
         {
                   System.out.println("");
                   System.out.println("Death of Father Time");
                   System.out.println("a poem by Gideon Cooper");
                   System.out.println("");

                   System.out.println("Welcome welcome,");
                   System.out.println("all ye mourners,");
                   System.out.println("you damaged souls be brave.");
                   System.out.println("Follow closely,");
                   System.out.println("your heads keep bowed,");
                   System.out.println("show honor and behave.");
                   System.out.println("Pray let me guide you,");
                   System.out.println("to lead you,");
                   System.out.println("o’er to yonder grave,");
                   System.out.println("where our Belovéd lies.");
                   System.out.println("");

                   System.out.println("Hide not your face,");
                   System.out.println("beneath black veils,");
                   System.out.println("we all did love him so.");
                   System.out.println("Stay not your tears,");
                   System.out.println("so well deserved,");
                   System.out.println("proudly flaunt their flow.");
                   System.out.println("Carry on my friends,");
                   System.out.println("heart-sick friends,");
                   System.out.println("o’er to carvéd stone,");
                   System.out.println("where our Belovéd lies.");
                   System.out.println("");

                   System.out.println("Comrades behold,");
                   System.out.println("here at our feet,");
                   System.out.println("belovéd Father Time.");
                   System.out.println("murdered foully,");
                   System.out.println("rent asunder,");
                   System.out.println("by a thoughtless crime.");
                   System.out.println("An act so careless,");
                   System.out.println("so careless!");
                   System.out.println("Cut him in his prime,");
                   System.out.println("and here Belovéd lies.");
                   System.out.println("");
                   
                   System.out.println("And how you ask,");
                   System.out.println("as well you should,");
                   System.out.println("did our Belovéd die?");
                   System.out.println("On rashest whim,");
                   System.out.println("a bored young man,");
                   System.out.println("thought he’d kill some time.");
                   System.out.println("He wasted Father,");
                   System.out.println("dear Father,");
                   System.out.println("so we all must cry,");
                   System.out.println("for here Belovéd lies.");
                   System.out.println("");

                   System.out.println("Oh wretched youth,");
                   System.out.println("you curséd foe,");
                   System.out.println("how dare you be so cruel!");
                   System.out.println("To waste so fast,");
                   System.out.println("what all adore,");
                   System.out.println("you heartless, thoughtless fool!");
                   System.out.println("Pray cherish time, sir.");
                   System.out.println("Indeed, sir,");
                   System.out.println("and ne’re let ennui rule,");
                   System.out.println("while our Belovéd lies.");
                   System.out.println("");
         }
}