[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 2827]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               DISCOVERY

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                            HON. PETE OLSON

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, February 28, 2011

  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I submit the following:

     Discovery!
     This, her final quest!
     As on this your final voyage, now so left . . . .
     As through the years, as you went forth . . . . with all of 
           your best!
     To news worlds, with all of your dreams unfurled . . . .
     Daring so boldly, but To Be The Best!
     And to all of those lives lost, and all those most swollen 
           tears . . . . this cost!
     Who to us the very meaning of courage, so taught!

     Space!
     The Final Frontier!
     Hurdling through space, but on the edge . . . . the very edge 
           of death as wrought!
     All in your most heroic quests!
     As have, all of your most courageous hearts and souls . . . . 
           so here no less!
     Hearts and souls!
     Who, all of you our very futures hold!

     To Discovery!
     These mysteries and answers, that we have so left!
     To new worlds, and new distant shores!
     To Discover . . . . To Move So Gallantly Forth, To Explore!
     As have you, and all of yours!
     And all of those, fine women and men....
     Who have so helped, so helped all of you up to send....
     To send, all up in outer space!
     All but to so save this, this the human race!
     As upon you, most courageous explorers . . . . all our 
           futures so depend!
     For only through you can we so learn, and grow . . . . and to 
           new heights so ascend!
     For as long as we have such Brave Heart's as yours, who so 
           heroically so go forth!
     And reach for the stars!
     Who So Go Forth, to new worlds and far away most distance 
           shores!
     To Discover, what so lies left . . . .
     All out there, on but that very edge . . . . that edge of 
           death!
     To all of Man and Womankind, to so bless!
     God Speed, to all of you on this your most final heroic 
           quest!
     All in this your final voyage . . . . final journey no less!

     To Discover!
     As to new heights, as your most magnificent souls so crest!
     To Discovery, and all of its gifts!

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