Before chaos reigned
Hope surrendered to cynicism
Fire was extinguished by murky waters
Civilization was far away unknown.
Apollo sojourned the Earth
Radiating light and heat
Golden cosmic egg incubated
In it lay posterity’s civilization.
When would the egg ripe
Where would it hatch
On earth or in the heaven
Was a mystery to the heathen.
Our father in heaven, Zeus
Summoned his intellect
His own daughter, Athene
Choose! Said he, the new world co-ordinates.
Athene attired in resplendent white
Face that radiates pure wisdom light
Mused over the problem quiet
And worked up a solution right.
There is an abode far away
Untouched by the old world’s corruption sway
Pure air, water, earth and fire
Congealed for civilization’s survival
Freedom is the first name there
Bondage is unknown and nowhere
Justice is the Right Way everywhere
Happiness is the pursuit of the lay there.
Men toil tirelessly; brothers in arms
Women labor lovingly; sisters in arms
Fathers move responsibly; parents in arms
Mothers provide abundantly; heavens in arms.
Children play on the golden sands
Teachers are honest at all costs
Truth is the only currency no matter what
Deceit and lies spurned whenever caught.
Such a Republic should exist at all
Should form the seed thought of scientists all
Powerful thoughts from experimenting minds
Shall flow to entire human kind
Should a golden cosmic egg thus formed
Shall gestate in Delphic State
Apollo sure will strike
Whenever threatened with cosmic strife.
Athene, radiating shining helmet light
Turned around to her left
Addressed her father straight
Impersonal, pray grant the New World rights.
Zeus who wields the thunderbolt
Of perfect, functional and adamantine constitution
Surveyed the stadia full of resolutions
Spoke authoritatively to his daughter in might.
The New World you petition for
Its abode is not very far
Similar havens existed before
Till man’s misery made them no more.
Many a world have I created
With so many stadia designed
Parallel courses running together
For all citizens to try their valor.
I sit here on the Mount Olympus
Watch all contests in chorus
Brave citizens sweat in the field
With a purpose to increase the total yield.
A fair play have I decreed
For all ages, nations, sexes and creed
Those who violate game rules
Get penalized by the referee who rules
Success is not the only end
Without values, sure it is a dead end
Participants who certify
To Ithaca they fly.
This Ithaca is the only place
Where marriage bed is in the royal palace
To earn the rights to lay there
Men and women should dutifully CARE.
Such an Ithaca when fully constituted
I shall grant a fair wind over the Atlantic tide
All those who get a safe passage through
Will be grateful to the pilgrim father’s Truth.
This is the spirit of July 4th
Dreamed by the martyr of April 4th
In such a lineage I create
United States of America the Great.
In Praise of Liberty Goddess
You’re hope and freedom for the abandoned
Fecund earth for those who cultivate
Capital for the industrious and the adventurous
Liberty goddess stands firmly by them
Laborers toil day and night
Intellectuals think by your might
Scientists experiment because of your sight
Administrators execute to keep the torch burning bright.
The struggle to manhood is a worthy one
In vain did we attain it without your benedictions
In the new world you stood firm
To enable men/women to conceive in liberation
Truth beams radiant from your effulgent face
The torch glows fueled by love always
The book of knowledge adds on in pursuit of Truth
The crown befits your royal demeanor
To secure your blessings
On this auspicious day of July 4th
We submit you most humbly
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