<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Tor House</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes:</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Perhaps of my planted forest a few</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians or the coast cypress, haggard</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">With storm-drift; but fire and the axe are devils.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers had the art</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">But if you should look in your idleness after ten thousand years:</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">It is the granite knoll on the granite</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">And lava tongue in the midst of the bay, by the mouth of the Carmel</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">River-valley, these four will remain</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">In the change of names. You will know it by the wild sea-fragrance of wind</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Though the ocean may have climbed or retired a little;</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">You will know it by the valley inland that our sun and our moon were born from</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Before the poles changed; and Orion in December</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Evenings was strung in the throat of the valley like a lamp-lighted bridge.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Come in the morning you will see white gulls</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Weaving a dance over blue water, the wane of the moon</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Their dance-companion, a ghost walking</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">By daylight, but wider and whiter than any bird in the world.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">My ghost you needn’t look for; it is probably</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Here, but a dark one, deep in the granite, not dancing on wind</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">With the mad wings and the day moon.</p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Robinson Jeffers</div></div></body></html>