HOMESHIP RULES

(Tune: "When Our Gallant Norman Foes")

When the elder Nyrond race
From the Essence sprang full-grown
In a universe now lost beyond recalling,
They were conquerors of space
With a power all their own
And their ships possessed a majesty appalling.
Though time has wrought his will
On the metal and the mind
And the ravages of entropy are grievous
The homeships travel still
Thanks to those who stayed behind
Who built them with a faith that ne'er shall leave us.

CHORUS	The floors may tip and the ceilings fall
And rooms fill up with sand and all
But the Homeship Rules and the homeship reigns
O'er Nyrond hearts and Nyrond brains. (Repeat)

So wherever Homeship Rules
Over doughty Nyrond wills
With a potency untarnished by the ages
The disparagements of fools
Of the elder Nyronds' skills
Go ignored and unrecorded by the sages.
Though the drives forever sleep
The computers are deranged
And the fabric is collapsing round about us
Still we voyage through the deep
With our high resolve unchanged:
The universe shall never be without us!

CHORUS (and Repeat)