Yet more childhood doggerel

This, from 1969, did force me to learn some German in junior high school:

How thankful I am
to have been born in this generation...
for I will be dead
when Man
finishes his rape
of the Earth
and, in turning away,
dies.

Wie erkenntlich ich würde
zu geboren werden
in diesem Menschenalter...
für ich will tod sein
wenn Mann
macht seinen Raub
des Erdes fertig
und, in wegwenden,
sterbt.