<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="">Thebaid<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">How many turn back toward dreams and magic, how many</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">children</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Run home to Mother Church, Father State,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">To find in their arms the delicious warmth and folding of souls.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The age weakens and settles home toward old ways.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">An age of renascent faith: Christ said, Marx wrote, Hitler says,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">And though it seems absurd we believe.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Sad children, yes. It is lonely to be adult, you need a father.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">With a little practice you'll believe anything.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Faith returns, beautiful, terrible, ridiculous,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">And men are willing to die and kill for their faith.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Soon come the wars of religion; centuries have passed</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Since the air so trembled with intense faith and hatred.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Soon, perhaps, whoever wants to live harmlessly</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Must find a cave in the mountain or build a cell</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Of the red desert rock under dry junipers,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">And avoid men, live with more kindly wolves</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">And luckier ravens, waiting for the end of the age.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Hermit from stone cell</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Gazing with great stunned eyes,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">What extravagant miracle</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Has amazed them with light,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">What visions, what crazy glory, what wings?</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I see the sun set and rise</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">And the beautiful desert sand</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">And the stars at night,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The incredible magnificence of things.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I the last living man</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">That sees the real earth and skies,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Actual life and real death.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The others are all prophets and believers</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 23px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Delirious with fevers of faith. </span></div><div class=""><div style="widows: 1;" class=""><font color="#333333" face="Roboto, sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="widows: 1;" class=""><font color="#333333" face="Roboto, sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Robinson Jeffers</span></font></div><div style="widows: 1;" class=""><font color="#333333" face="Roboto, sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="widows: 1;" class=""><font color="#333333" face="Roboto, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px; 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