• Author: Eichelberger, Richard R.
• Editor: Baas, Gerald J.
• Newspaper: The Eastern Echo volume 11
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• Date: 09 Fall 1965
• Tags:
• poetry

GEMINI IV

Once low-browed man-brute walked erect From cave-dark depth into dreadful night. There lifted his head and peered direct, Fixing fierce wonder on Heavens lustrous lights! Challenging past primordial night, by one round stone, He heaved aloft, with superstitious strength alone, And threw, marking man’s first uncradled reach Outward, into vacuums vast beyond belief! Now conquistadors of different vizored mien, Trust scientific thrust of rockets multi-engined might; 'Til bound by gold umbilicus they leap, Brave colossi into the endless deep! There unstanding, weightless they command Star-struck strangers, in a new Darien.

by Richard Eichelberger