Americus The Pioneer
© Surazeus
2025 02 20

Though ghost of Arthur lingers in gray mist
among ivy-covered ruins of Camelot,
and phantom of Alfred floats on frail wings
among musty leather-bound books of lore
in maze of candle-lit Winchester halls,
I feel their spirits alive in me still.

Few now in distant land of Zathamar,
renamed America on Gothic maps,
think daily of those ancient steel-eyed kings
who forged the English nation from wild tribes
to build world-spanning empire of commerce
on which America built its self-worth.

No mythic king titled Americus
has ever risen from its wilderness
composed of refugees from holy wars
from many nations ruled by gold-crowned kings
since we sailed west across the stormy sea
to find land of Atlantis thriving still.

Crowded now with large Anglo-Saxon tribes
four hundred years blooming from country farms
to vast cities of computer-linked towers,
America proclaims itself with pride
as the greatest nation in the whole world,
based on liberty and justice for all.

Since Aeneas sailed from Troy to found Rome,
and Brutus sailed from Rome to found Britannia,
the westward flowing motion of expansion
drove our ancestors across the wild sea
Scythia to Scotland to Virginia to Oregon,
seeking new opportunities of growth.

No social hero could be idealized
as symbol forming noble character
who personifies spirit of adventure
more than Americus the Pioneer,
whose name Haim-Eric in Anglo-Saxon
means Home Guard who watches over the garden.

Thus brave forward-gazing Americus
personifies soul of the pioneer
who leaves behind his European home
oppressed by greedy kings in castle towers
to build new nation on grand principle
that every person is free to live right.

Together with ancestors of his soul,
Americus walks signless road of hope
with Arthur and Alfred to found on faith
world nation dedicated to liberty
and justice as keys to democracy
where we live as we will, if we harm none.

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Orpheus meets Americus in the rocky Rainbow Mountains where they search for gold in the Cave of Illusions where ghost of Plato dreams ideas.

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