For those of you unable to see the image, it's in the Files folder at
the Group web site (VERY long cut-and-paste):
http://f3.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/oHBDQrXL2X2eKoLq3GkPdfru2Th8pjcnGiW4RbG4VqJ3lnOImxRzvHD6H22t0O4ys0_hlMc0euvX-LAIJ0-S/HubbleEye.jpg
--G.H.
--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, Joy McCann
<jmmccann_at_s...> wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > 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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