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we were hunters
and foragers
the frontier was everywhere
we were bounded only by the earth and the ocean
and the sky
the open road still softly calls
our little terr aqueous globe
is the madhouse of those hundred
thousand millions of worlds
we who cannot even put our own planetary home in order
riven with rivalries and hatreds are we need to venture out into space
be by the time we're ready to settle even the nearest other planetary systems
we will have changed
the simple passage of so many generations will have changed us
necessity
will have changed us we're
an adaptable species for all our failings
despite our limitations and fallibilities we humans
are capable of greatness
what new wonders undreamt of in our time
we have wrought in another generation
and another
how many rivers we had to cross
before we found our way