[00:00.00]I believed they had got what they came for;
[00:07.80]I believed our peril was done
[00:13.45]On the eve of the last of the Great Wars
[00:19.29]After three we had narrowly won
[00:25.60](But the fourth
[00:26.39]It was carelessly done.)
[00:30.44]I saw his ship in its whistling ascension
[00:36.51]As they launched from the Capitol seat–
[00:41.28]Swear I saw our mistake
[00:44.72]When the clouds draped like a flag
[00:48.77]Across the backs of the fleet
[00:53.80]Of the Hundred-First Lightborne Elite
[00:58.33]As the day is long
[01:01.30]So the well runs dry
[01:04.80]And we came to see Time is taller
[01:06.45]Than Space is wide
[01:09.34]And we bade goodbye
[01:11.90]To the Great Divide:
[01:14.61]Found unlimited simulacreage to colonize!
[01:20.75]But there was a time we were lashed to the prow
[01:27.80]Of a ship you may board, but not steer
[01:32.38]Before You and I ceased to mean Now
[01:38.14]And began to mean only Right Here
[01:43.15](to mean Inches and Miles, but not Years);
[01:48.75]Before Space has a taste of its limits
[01:53.81]And a new sort of coordinate awoke
[01:59.75]Making Time just another poor tenant:
[02:06.00]Bearing weight, taking fire, trading smokes
[02:10.69]In the war between us and our ghosts
[02:15.78](But I saw the Bering Strait and the Golden Gate
[02:21.60]In silent suspension of their golden age!
[02:27.32]And you can barely tell, if I guard it well
[02:32.38]Where I have been, and seen
[02:36.82]Pristine, unfelled.)
[02:38.98]I had a dream that I walked in the garden
[02:45.42]Of Chabot, and those telescope ruins
[02:50.73]It was there that I called to my true love
[02:57.14]Who was pale as millennial moons
[03:03.90]Honey, where did you come by that wound?
[03:07.57]When I woke, he was gone
[03:10.64]And the War had begun
[03:14.80]In eternal return and repeat
[03:18.54]Calling, Where in the hell are the rest of your fellow
[03:20.57]One Hundred-One Lightborne Elite?
[03:29.71]Stormed in the New Highland Light Infantry
[03:35.25]Make it stop, my love!
[03:39.10]We were wrong to try
[03:41.37]Never saw what we could unravel
[03:44.50]In traveling light
[03:46.51]Nor how the trip debrides–
[03:48.82]Like a stack of slides!
[03:52.18]All we saw was that Time is taller than Space is wide
[03:58.10]That's why we are bound to a round desert island
[04:04.76]'neath the sky where our sailors have gone
[04:10.32]Have they drowned, in those windy highlands?
[04:17.28]Highlands away, my John