35 Years Ago Today...

[athelind]

Hope Eyrie
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 brushes dust of hope from his hands
And turns another page.

But 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 open skies
and a single flag unfurled.

But 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 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

But 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,
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.

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

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Comments

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Funny thing, when I got my present post (I'd been on the Dole for 3½ years), after the interview my words down the phone were "The Eagle has Landed, the Eagle has Landed..."

Good job they didn't use the same code phrase as for the Dambuster raid by 617 Sqdrn. You'd never be able to broadcast it now...(they tend to blank it on the movie s/track, too...)

[musewoozle.livejournal.com]

Very nice. It captures the mood at the time, I think. I also think it hints at the the real reason for putting a man on the moon, too.

-- Jacob

[silussa.livejournal.com]

I remember staying up late that night to watch Neil Armstrong's descent from the capsule and bounce about the lunar surface a bit.

The picture was poor black and white. Horrible even by the standards then, and even worse by today's.

Of course, the key was, it was the first time we had set foot on soil not of Earth. And by we, I mean WE.

"We come in peace, for all mankind."