Rock And Hawk by Robinson Jeffers
Here is a symbol in which Many high tragic thoughts Watch their own eyes.
This gray rock, standing tall On the headland, where the seawind Lets no tree grow,
Earthquake-proved, and signatured By ages of storms: on its peak A falcon has perched.
I think here is your emblem To hang in the future sky; Not the cross, not the hive,
But this; bright power, dark peace; Fierce consciousness joined with final Disinterestedness;
Life with calm death; the falcon's Realist eyes and act Married to the massive
Mysticism of stone, Which failure cannot cast down Nor success make proud.
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