Star Sailors

Upon the oceans, long ago, 

Did bold explorers bravely show

Their strength and will upon the seas,

Far off from home and lives of ease,

For lands afar, ‘neath curious skies;

Adventure called with every tide.

The years did pass, and more then sailed

In mighty ships, ‘mid stormy gale;

They braved the doldrums, crossed the sea,

They planted flags on foreign beach,

And generations after thrived

Upon the lands these men did find.

And then, through many tens of years,

As lands were settled on this sphere,

And maps were made of islands far, 

And oceans deep were drawn on charts;

What now, of ventures bold and grand,

When all the earth is known to man?

So some strong hearts above did gaze,

As did their forbears in past days,

And looked upon the heavens fair,

To stars, and moon, and empty air,

And set their minds to go and see

What wonders past the skies there be.

A sea of stars they sail upon,

On silent tides, where winds are gone,

And seek they knowledge, wonders vast,

Beyond horizons flying past,

Where no man living yet has been

Except in dreams - they live therein.