Monday, March 16, 2015

"Tor House" - Robinson Jeffers


















If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes:
Perhaps of my planted forest a few
May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians or the coast cypress,      haggard
With storm-drift; but fire and the axe are devils.
Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers had the art
To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant.
But if you should look in your idleness after ten thousand years:
It is the granite knoll on the granite
And lava tongue in the midst of the bay, by the mouth of the      Carmel
River Valley; these four will remain
In the changes of names. You will know it by the wild sea-      fragrance of the wind.

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