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[00:00.00]作曲 : Lassi Kotamaki
[00:31.47]The quotation is from an ancient Roman play by Seneca.
[00:37.61]"An age shall come after many years “
[00:40.21]when the ocean will loose the chain of things
[00:43.09]and a huge land lie revealed."
[00:48.38]In the old book in Seville,
[00:49.51]these lines are followed by this one:
[00:55.44]"My father fulfilled this prophecy
[00:59.15]on October 12 in the Year of Our Lord fourteen hundred and ninety-two."
[01:06.60]Today is October 12, nineteen hundred and forty-two.
[01:14.17]This is our birthday.
[01:16.35]The broadcast is part of the celebration.
[01:18.35]It comes to you in the principal American languages,
[01:21.38]and you are hearing it in every country of our hemisphere.
[01:27.36]Happy birthday, everybody!
[01:28.62]-
[03:04.28]The greatest and anonymous,
[03:06.17]the conquistadors, the priests, the prospectors, the traders,
[03:10.47]the trappers, the bandeirantes, and the leatherstockings.
[03:13.64]Every man of them who moved forward valinatly
[03:16.35]into any part of the uncharted darkness of our new world
[03:23.38]is a discoverer of American.
[03:24.73]-
[03:41.63]Maybe the unknown can only be explored by men of no imagination,
[03:44.79]but I think you need imagination to make the try.
[03:47.48]It can't have been pleasant—that first crossing.
[03:56.49]Somebody once said that adventure is an attitude taken toward discomfort.
[04:01.86]Imagine the first day of that first Atlantic adventure.