okay peeps ur girl right here needs help tryna impress my bf so we r doing long distance for rn but he's been gone for the past 4 hrs just about and I wanna surprise him with something but idk what to do I need help (boys this is for you to answer) someone help me

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?