HOPE EYRIE -- minus 10 and counting version, except gender
change, and but/for the eagle.

  Worlds grow old, and suns grow cold
  And death we never can doubt
  Time's cold wind wailing down the pass
  Reminds us that all flesh is grass
  And history's lamps go out

    (Refrain)

    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 sweeps the dust of hope from her hands
  And turns another page

    For the Eagle has landed!  Tell your children when!
    Time won't drive us down to dust again!

  But we who feel the weight of the wheel
  When winter comes over our world
  Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes
  To a silver moon in the open sky
  And a single flag unfurled

    For the Eagle has landed!  Tell your children when!
    Time won't drive us down to dust again!

  We know well what life can tell
  If you would not perish then grow
  And today our fragile flesh and steel
  Has laid our hands on a vaster wheel
  With all of the stars to know

    That the Eagle has landed!  Tell your children when!
    Time won't drive us down to dust again!

  From all who tried out of history's tide
  A salute to 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

    And the Eagle has landed!  Tell your children when!
    Time won't drive us down to dust again!