Hope Eyrie (Julia Ecklar)

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 the 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 would 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