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We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.