January: Year-day 5

          
                                    
                                     
January: Year-day 5
                                              
Views of America: to be a guide
for us.  Views of America: for thought.
Views of America: for joy, for pride,
humility, sorrows: to test what's taught,
to see if what then was/ and now is/ sought
agree; and how to live with what we hide,
once found; and whether what we can we ought
or not/ for our tomorrows, deep, and wide.
                                             
Of the first steps was one upon a rock,
a step which left no mark but in the minds
of those who saw it and of those since told.
                                                
Of the latest, a bolder mythic shock,
is one which shows its passing, and defines,
perhaps forever on Earth's moon, our soul.
                                             
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