Poetry meme
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To The Stone-Cutters
Robinson Jeffers
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
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Date: 2009-02-04 01:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-04 08:53 pm (UTC)I only really know John M. Ford's Star Trek novels but they were good enough that I keep thinking I must look out more of his work one day.