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Leslie Fish & Julia Ecklar. Hope Eyrie

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Letra de Leslie Fish, música de 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.

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…