Type 0.99 Civilisation

Columbia's Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis, all Challengers will be DESTROYED.

They said we would go far, but they don't know how far we'd go
It can't be gone, we're still right here
It took so long, can't say we saw it all.

Five minutes to six.

"Hope Eyrie by Leslie Fish.

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.

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 sweeps dust of hope from her hands
And turns another page...

For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.

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 opened skies
And a single flag unfurled...

For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.

We know well what Life can tell:
If you will not perish, then grow.
And today our fragile flesh and steel
Have laid our hands on a vaster wheel
With all of the stars to know.

That the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.

From all who tried out of history's tide,
A 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.

For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again."

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