Wow.
--J
On Mar 23, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Michael Marinacci wrote:
> Reminds me of a poem Robinson Jeffers wrote about the mighty Pacific
> Ocean:
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> The Eye
>
> The Atlantic is a stormy moat; and the Mediterranean,
> The blue pool in the old garden,
> More than five thousand years has drunk sacrifice
> Of ships and blood, and shines in the sun ; but here the Pacific --
> Our ships, planes, wars are perfectly irrelevant.
> Neither our present blood-feud with the brave dwarfs
> Nor any future world-quarrel of westering
> And eastering man, the bloody migrations, greed of power, clash of
> faiths --
> Is a speck of dust on the great scale-pan.
> Here from this mountain shore, headland beyond stormy headland
> plunging like dolphins through the blue sea-smoke
> Into pale sea--look west at the hill of water : it is half the planet
> :
> this dome, this half-globe, this bulging
> Eyeball of water, arched over to Asia,
> Australia and white Antartica: those are the eyelids that never close
> ;
> this is the staring unsleeping
> Eye of the earth; and what it watches is not our wars.
>
> Robinson Jeffers
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Received on 2005-03-24 01:09:03