<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477498" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Moon Remembers the Astronauts</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Neil Armstrong arrived first, <br>Landing the lunar module of Apollo 11<br>At the Sea of Tranquility<br>On July 19,1969.<br>“That’s one small step for man, <br>One giant leap for mankind”, <br>He said, <br>And Edwin Aldrin stood next to him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Later others came.<br>In all a dozen men walked on the moon<br>Perturbing her pristine lot with rhythmic dockings.<br>Conrad, Bean and Mitchell, <br>Scott, Irwin, Young and Duke were there, <br>Strolling in moon dust, before Schmitt and Cernan<br>From the crew of Apollo 17<br>Touched down in the Taurus-Littrow valley<br>On a December day of 1972. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But since then human foot did not step on the moon<br>And she stares at the frail blue sphere of her neighbor<br>With the abandoned hills of Hadley Apennines<br>And a quiet Ocean of Storms. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She orbits the Earth with desolate lunar craters; <br>A convivial loner, shining unfrequented, <br>Her arcane face keeps waxing and waning; <br>And although forlorn, reclusive and remote, <br>In her silent yellow solitude<br>The Moon remembers the astronauts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477498" data-title="The Moon Remembers the Astronauts de Paul Hartal" data-description="Neil Armstrong arrived first, Landing the lunar module of Apollo 11 At the Sea of Tranquility On July 19,1969. “That’s one small step for man, One giant leap for mankind”, He said, And Edwin Aldrin stood next to him. Later others came. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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