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Robinson Jeffers - Second-Best
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A Celtic spearman forcing the cromlech-builder`s brown
daughter;
A blond Saxon, a slayer of Britons,
Building his farm outside the village he`d burned; a Norse
Voyager, wielder of oars and a sword,
Thridding the rocks at the fjord sea-end, hungry as a hawk;
A hungry Gaelic chiefling in Ulster,
Whose blood with the Norseman`s rotted in the rain on a heather
hill:
These by the world`s time were very recent
Forefathers of yours. And you are a maker of verses. The pallid
Pursuit of the world`s beauty on paper,
Unless a tall angel comes to require it, is a pitiful pastime.
If, burnished new from God`s eyes, an angel:
And the ardors of the simple blood showing clearly a little
ridiculous
In this changed world: write and be quiet.
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