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