To Better Days

Some day soon, though not today
  we’ll raise a glass again
to beginnings and ambitions
  and ideals we will defend

To carefree days and rakish ways
  to wisdom and delight
we’ll reinvent all precedent
  and welcome every light

Oh, some day soon, why not today
  we’ll raise a glass again
we’ll drink to virgin worlds of hope
  and we will not pretend