Generations

Born between eighteen 'n' seventy-one 
and eighteen 'n' eighty-plus-nine, 
your so-call'd New Worlders had minimal fun, 
although rarely were heard they to whine. 

Between eighteen 'n' ninety and nineteen aught-eight, 
your so-call'd Hard Timers were born. 
The years they grew up in proved even less great, 
leaving Timers bereft and forlorn. 

From the turn of the cent'ry through World War One.

your Lost Generation arrived. 

Oodles died in that war, tens of thousands and more, 

whereas some few survived -- indeed, thrived. 

     (More to come; a work in progress)