Progress

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Upon once a time
the social designation
was that man should never fly,
yet man does fly.

Upon once a time
the crucial acclamation
was that man should never reach space,
yet man has shot past space,
and reached the moon.

Upon once a time
the voice of a hundred nations
declared that peace should never be,
and it has yet to be seen
and perhaps, it shall never be

But though the law of gravity is to bring things down,
it is the instinct of man to rise.

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