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Adventurers and discoverers are driven to scale the heights we've never known Their DNA is coded to descend the depths of places we've neither seen nor gone "THE summer night is still and sweet WITH flowers on every tree PEACE comes to them on quiet feet".. Like wounded warriors happy to be home and free What if Explorers never tried to show and tell It's best that some things we shall never know But what if Freedom's Quest had grown stale Endurance is a power seed that makes us grow What if The Colonists had never prevailed Mortals keep resisting until they are let go What if there never was a Liberty Bell Rivers fight and push until they find their flow What if The Mayflower had never set sailed We all face obstacles we never encountered before What if Plymouth's long and dangerous volage had failed Righteousness demands that walls must fall like Jericho 052621PSCtest, Choose Your Form 2, Joseph May My choice was Stanza #2, selected for the contest from among 5 choices. In the first stanza above, the last words of 2 and 4 are rhymed. In the other 4 stanzas, the last words of lines 1 and 3 are rhymed; and the last words of lines 2 and 4 also rhyme.

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