Well, this is more culture than politics, but between wretchard’s Tennyson quote and the good graces of Bombay gin, I’m inspired to throw a bit of Yeats into the mix -

While still I may, I write for you
The love I lived, the dream I knew.
From our birthday until we die
Is but the blinking of an eye;
And we, our singing and our love,
What measurer Time has lit above,
And all benighted things that go
About my table to and fro
Are passing on to where may be,
In truth’s consuming ecstasy,
No place for love and dream at all;
For God goes by with white footfall.
I cast my heart into my rhymes,
That you, in the dim coming times,
May know how my heart went with them
After the red-rose-bordered hem.