Shine, Perishing Republic - Robinson Jeffers

[Larry Robinson]

I look forward to seeing you and your friends then.
> On Jul 3, 2017, at 7:45 AM, Larry Robinson <Lrobpoet at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> Shine, Perishing Republic
> 
> 
> While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire,
> And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass 
> 	hardens,
> 
> I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make 
> 	earth.
> Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness and decadence; and 
> 	home to the mother.
> 
> You making haste haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly 
> 	long or suddenly
> A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing 
> 	republic.
> 
> But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the thickening 
> 	center; corruption
> Never has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster’s feet there are left 
> 	the mountains.
> 
> And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant, 
> 	insufferable master.
> There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught—they say—God, when he 
> 	walked on earth.
> 
> 
> 	- Robinson Jeffers
> 
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