Theodore Stephanides
To Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins
Earth changes — on the Moon no atmospherosions rasps the land;
An aeon hence their base, their scattered gear,
Their very footprints, monuments, shall stand.
Ambassadors of Man'saspiring Will,
To starry Space, the first, they crossed the sill.

(from "Worlds in a Crucible" 1973)