Before The Fiddlers Have Fled

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
--Rachel Carson
Silent Spring

Frank Sinatra: Let's Face the Music and Dance **

Diana Krall: **
there may be trouble ahead
but while there's moonlight
and music and love and romance
let's face the music and dance
before the fiddlers have fled
before they ask us to pay the bill
and while we still have the chance
let's face the music and dance
soon, we'll be without the moon
humming a different tune and then
there may be teardrops to shed
so while there's moonlight
and music and love and romance
let's face the music and dance **
--irving berlin