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Askance

At the last beam of light And fixing fire For the doldrums We were breaking Bread On the last days of irving And in our history Sounding off to wisdom Declared inactive And heuristically seeking What was to be seen But a ball of Earth Bloodletted, For Martian battle And wind of sedges For things toward us Earth return, We had the red planet, In subtle caves Right back to the orbit It was just the beginning As our trees died in the sun And especially stunned At the shore and the seas But what is this light On our speeding ship Fortunes to dare- Reprising the end of dreams Unwilling captain, A Canadian, naturally Played verses of time, And obliterations, Deliberate at dawn We sought Peter And his Holy Church Fed to lions, and earthhelp Especially barren, Outresting our Mass Snowing by our poppies With what to renew But being deported Without cause

God Bless the beautiful Earth For Holy Hour is love And a precipice of new beginnings New saints And new homes Far from there And we were NASA And believed in God