Seas of the Future

Sail the seas of the future upon well built children

Shape from trees straight and strong in dry dock of a gentle society then

From our homes,schools and churches crafted with loving shipwrights hand

Launch them forth from those safe ports to reach the isle on Man

Sail the seas of the future upon well built children

The time be right and they outfitted to be christened for the sea when

Their sails have been made of trust for to withstand the winds of war

Their anchors forged of discipline not illusion to weather the current of confusion

Their rudders made of education and left not to chance to out run the storms of ignorance

Their rope of wisdom fastened now before they are grown

to batten down against the cold of the unknown

Their compass of love left not merely to fate so that they may find their way

through the long night of Hate

Sail the seas of the future upon well built children

No other vessel can make this trip,not money,not power and especially not grown men

Sail the seas of the future upon well built children

For without them we will find ourselves darkened upon the rock of a world that could have been