[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 174 (Tuesday, November 15, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2055-E2056]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




TO SUCH NEW FRONTIERS, THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL CEREMONY, NOVEMBER 
 16TH 2011, AT THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL, IN HONOR OF ASTRONAUTS BUZZ 
        ALDRIN, NEIL ARMSTRONG, MICHAEL COLLINS, AND JOHN GLENN

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                             HON. TIM RYAN

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 15, 2011

  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the recipients 
of the New Frontier Congressional Gold Medal. I submit the following 
poem written in honor of these recipients:

                         To Such New Frontiers

                       (By Albert Carey Caswell)

     To . . .
     To Such
     New Frontiers . . .
     As have all of you've gone so here!
     Gone, so boldly forth, all out on your course . . .
     as America's most courageous pioneers!
     As all out upon your most heroic ways . . .
     All at speed, all in what your fine lives have so conveyed!
     As so boldly forth,
     as you would not so heed . . .
     All without fear,
     to so sow exploration's most brilliant seeds!
     All but for our Country Tis of Thee . . .
     All of your fine lives,
     you were so ready to concede!
     All so ready to so pledge indeed!
     As The Right Stuff,
     came so streaking upon the scene!
     As so courageously onward you all so sped . . .
     all at speed!
     All out there on that very edge . . .
     that edge of death!
     All in what your most magnificent lives,
     have so said!
     As You So Reached For The Stars,
     so courageously without fear . . .
     so led!
     Up to new worlds and dreams,
     all in what your fine lives have so deemed . . .
     All in your stead!
     All to so reach those most monumental of all themes!
     To Learn,
     What Must So Be Learned!
     To Touch . . .
     What Must So Be Touched!
     To See,
     What Must So Be Seen!
     To Hear,
     What Must So Be Heard!
     To Feel,
     What Must So Be Felt!
     To Speak,
     What Must So Be Spoken!
     To Dream,
     What Must So Be Dreamed!
     To Stretch . . .
     To Ever Expand . . .
     To Go So Ever So Forth . . .
     To So Glean!
     Right To The Very Edge,
     of Exploration's Golden Sheen!
     To Inspire Us All So Higher!
     All So To Dare To Dream!
     To Discovery,
     and Beyond!
     As you've so pushed that envelope,
     out past its most outer limits!
     As so ever forth,
     as you so stayed the course . . .
     moving onward and upward,
     all up above the clouds!
     As you were gone!
     While,
     streaking across the heavens all through time so now!
     As to all our souls so wed!
     Speaking to our hearts and souls,
     all in such awe!
     To So Save Woman and Mankind,
     as so surely we so saw!
     As out into the future,
     you've so cast your most historic shrouds!
     As you so gleamed,
     shining so magnificently so all throughout!
     To so find the answers,
     that which must now so be found!
     For only up to such great new heights so now,
     can such hearts of courage full so sound!
     Beating long,
     and loud!
     As to new worlds,
     you've all so soared to now!
     To places,
     where only such hearts of faith so pound!
     Whether, the first to walk upon the moon . . .
     or the first American to orbit in space!
     As your time upon this earth,
     could not so keep up with your explorer's pace!
     As all of your journeys,
     have all so been filled with such amazing grace!
     To discovery and beyond,
     as all of those most precious seconds past you so raced!
     As it was there . . .
     you all so went so boldly forth all in place!
     All out upon that path,
     where only hearts can roam of faith!
     Whether, upon primitive machines of mankind . . .
     Or to the Moon and back,
     while living all out on that thin line!
     Riding on that very edge of death so fine!
     As all of your most precious gifts of space exploration . . .
     Have so blessed our world and this our nation . . .
     As upon Mankind's futures past,
     have so all been etched . . .
     All in your explorer's quest!
     As we so cry too,
     all at those most precious lives so lost . . .
     Of all of your Brothers and Sisters,
     who so paid the price of exploration's cost!
     The ones who like you so took those most heroic paths,
     to climb upward to the stars!
     Ever steadfast!
     To answer that most noble cause of exploration as asked!
     All with your journeys so unfurled . . .
     The names Aldrin, Armstrong, Collins, and Glenn . . .
     will out into the future forever last!
     ``One step for man,
     one giant leap for mankind'' . . .
     that which on your watch so came to pass!
     As new Stars were so formed,
     all by your hearts of exploration so very warm!

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     To such magnificent places,
     all of us you have taken . . .
     With your life's trajectories . . .
     your life's paths,
     as up to the heavens like a comet's tail so streaking past!
     To all of those new frontiers,
     that which you have so opened up so up here!
     That which now so lies before us all so very clear!
     As the possibilities seem so endless now,
     so here!
     For as long as we have such fine sons,
     of such courage and faith as all of these ones!
     Americans,
     who in the name of exploration so shine like the sun!
     Who,
     against all odds . . .
     almost like God's, will so courageously soar . . .
     To distant worlds, and shores . . .
     To find the answers to so explore . . .
     Then, the sky has no limit anymore . . .
     to such new frontiers as you soar . . .
     So on this day as we place!
     These gold medals,
     around each one of your most courageous face!
     History for you now so holds your place . . .
     As something that time,
     nor so distance . . .
     can now so erase . . .
     For as long as we have such bold woman and men . . .
     Who so dare to dream, so then!
     And go out towards Exploration's most farthest ends . . .
     Then, we shall all go so forth Godspeed to command!
     To Such New Frontiers, my friend.

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