Enduring Heritage

The remembrance from the grained stone of age Facade of wrinkles enduring heritage With more to hold in expectations engage Of smooth settled forms in what life shall acknowledge More to each day through the years and the past Perceptive in footage which found their while Everything scattered like the stars of vast Exteriors of oceans in each factual style The basalt of earth in its wet and dry dress Touch from the seashores of men's vanished time Now in detection to follow and caress Through continuing bequest to the past prime The truth from the land that has gone to the dark With ways of their founding that once did spark