This wild swan of a world is no hunter’s game. Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast, Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame.
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Praise life, it deserves praise, but the praise of life That forgets the pain is a pebble Ruttled in dry ground.
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The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those That ask mercy, not often to the arrogant. You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him; Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him; Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.
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Birth: | 10th January, 1887 |
Death: | 20th January, 1962 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Environmentalist, Poet |
John Robinson Jeffers was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement.
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