Americus The Pioneer

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.