'If you reach for the stars, Mr. Bush, you will see,
You'll find yourself a great deal of pain...
If you reach for the heavens,
You will go insane...'
Nope, it doesn't work.
BTW, yours sounds like something my very old-fashioned aunt would say.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller