<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Be Angry With The Sun</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">That public men publish falsehoods</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Is nothing new. That America must accept</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Like the historical republics corruption and empire</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Has been known for years</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Be angry with the sun for setting</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">If these things anger you. Watch the wheel slope and turn,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">They are all bound on the wheel, these people,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">those warriors.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">This republic, Europe, Asia.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Observe them gesticulating,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Observe them going down. The gang serves lies,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">the passionate</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Man plays his part; the cold passion for truth</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Hunts in no pack.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">You are not Catullus, you know,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">To lampoon these crude sketches of Caesar. You</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">are far</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">From Dante's feet, but even farther from his dirty </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Political hatreds.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Let boys want pleasure, and men</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Struggle for power, and women perhaps for fame,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">And the servile to serve a leader and the dupes</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">to be duped.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Yours is not theirs.</div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Robinson Jeffers</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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