Robinson Jeffers

Rock and Hawk

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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