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Robinson Jeffers - Tor HouseRobinson Jeffers - Tor House
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If you should look for this place after a handful        of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians or the coast        cypress, haggard With storm-drift; but fire and the axe are devils. Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers        had the art To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant. But if you should look in your idleness after ten        thousand years: It is the granite knoll on the granite And lava tongue in the midst of the bay, by the mouth        of the Carmel River-valley, these four will remain In the change of names. You will know it by the wild        sea-fragrance of wind Though the ocean may have climbed or retired a little; You will know it by the valley inland that our sun        and our moon were born from Before the poles changed; and Orion in December Evenings was strung in the throat of the valley like        a lamp-lighted bridge. Come in the morning you will see white gulls Weaving a dance over blue water, the wane of the moon Their dance-companion, a ghost walking By daylight, but wider and whiter than any bird in        the world. My ghost you needn`t look for; it is probably Here, but a dark one, deep in the granite, not        dancing on wind With the mad wings and the day moon.
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