<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509031" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>New Mexican Mountain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watch the Indians dancing to help the young corn at Taos<br>pueblo. The old men squat in a ring<br>And make the song, the young women with fat bare arms, and a<br>few shame-faced young men, shuffle the dance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lean-muscled young men are naked to the narrow loins,<br>their breasts and backs daubed with white clay,<br>Two eagle-feathers plume the black heads. They dance with<br>reluctance, they are growing civilized; the old men persuade them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed;<br>the beating heart, the simplest of rhythms,<br>It thinks the world has not changed at all; it is only a dreamer,<br>a brainless heart, the drum has no eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These tourists have eyes, the hundred watching the dance, white<br>Americans, hungrily too, with reverence, not laughter;<br>Pilgrims from civilization, anxiously seeking beauty, religion,<br>poetry; pilgrims from the vacuum.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">People from cities, anxious to be human again. Poor show how<br>they suck you empty! The Indians are emptied,<br>And certainly there was never religion enough, nor beauty nor<br>poetry here ... to fill Americans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed.<br>Apparently only myself and the strong<br>Tribal drum, and the rockhead of Taos mountain, remember<br>that civilization is a transient sickness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robinson+Jeffers">Robinson Jeffers</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509031" data-title="New Mexican Mountain de Robinson Jeffers" data-description="I watch the Indians dancing to help the young corn at Taos pueblo. The old men squat in a ring And make the song, the young women with fat bare arms, and a few shame-faced young men, shuffle the dance. The lean-muscled young men are naked to the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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