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Robinson Jeffers - The BroadstoneRobinson Jeffers - The Broadstone
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NEAR FINVOY, COUNTY ANTRIM We climbed by the old quarries to the wide highland of heath, On the slope of a swale a giant dolmen, Three heavy basalt pillars upholding the enormous skb, Towers and abides as if time were nothing. The hard stones are hardly dusted with lichen in nobody knows What ages of autumns in this high solitude Since a recordless tribe of an unknown race lifted them up To be the availing hero`s memorial, And temple of his power. They gathered their slighter dead from the biting Winds of time in his lee, the wide moor About him is swollen with barrows and breaks upon many stones, Lean gray guardians of old urned ashes, In waves on waves of purple heather and blithe spray of its bells. Here lies the hero, more than half God, And nobody knows his name nor his race, in the bee-bright necropolis, With the stone circle and his tribe around him. Sometimes perhaps (but who`d confess it?) in soft adolescence We used to wonder at the world, and have wished To hear some final harmony resolve the discords of life? Here they are all perfectly resolved.
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