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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswritten for apollo 11 but appropiate for curiosity
Worlds grow old and suns grow cold
And death we never can doubt.
Time's cold wind, wailing down the past,
Reminds us that all flesh is grass
And history's lamps blow out.
CHORUS:
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.
Cycles turn while the far stars burn,
And people and planets age.
Life's crown passes to younger lands,
Time brushes dust of hope from his hands
And turns another page.
CHORUS
But we who feel the weight of the wheel
When winter falls over our world
Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes
To a silver moon in the open skies
and a single flag unfurled.
CHORUS
We know well what Life can tell:
If you would not perish, then grow.
And today our fragile flesh and steel
Have laid their hands on a vaster wheel
With all of the stars to know
CHORUS That the...
From all who tried out of history's tide,
Salute for the team that won.
And the old Earth smiles at her children's reach,
The wave that carried us up the beach
To reach for the shining sun.
CHORUS For the...
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written for apollo 11 but appropiate for curiosity (Original Post)
rdking647
Aug 2012
OP
heres a link to an album of music about the space program now and in the future.
rdking647
Aug 2012
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Rhiannon12866
(205,074 posts)1. K&R! Beautiful!
Thanks so much for posting this!
rdking647
(5,113 posts)2. heres a link to an album of music about the space program now and in the future.
i own it and highly recomend it
http://www.prometheus-music.com/space.html
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)4. Thanks, just bought it
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)3. Beautiful
eridani
(51,907 posts)5. A science fiction convention favorite for 40 years
It was sung after the Challenger exploded, but the Curiosity landing is a far happier occasion.
rdking647
(5,113 posts)6. ive heard both leslie fish and julia ecklar sing it at cons