<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509039" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Original Sin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man-brained and man-handed ground-ape, physically <br>The most repulsive of all hot-blooded animals <br>Up to that time of the world: they had dug a pitfall <br>And caught a mammoth, but how could their sticks and stones <br>Reach the life in that hide? They danced around the pit, shrieking <br>With ape excitement, flinging sharp flints in vain, and the stench of their bodies <br>Stained the white air of dawn; but presently one of them <br>Remembered the yellow dancer, wood-eating fire <br>That guards the cave-mouth: he ran and fetched him, and others <br>Gathered sticks at the wood’s edge; they made a blaze <br>And pushed it into the pit, and they fed it high, around the mired sides <br>Of their huge prey. They watched the long hairy trunk <br>Waver over the stifle trumpeting pain, <br>And they were happy. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meanwhile the intense color and nobility of sunrise, <br>Rose and gold and amber, flowed up the sky. Wet rocks were shining, a little wind <br>Stirred the leaves of the forest and the marsh flag-flowers; the soft valley between the low hills <br>Became as beautiful as the sky; while in its midst, hour after hour, the happy hunters <br>Roasted their living meat slowly to death. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These are the people. <br>This is the human dawn. As for me, I would rather </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. <br>But we are what we are, and we might remember <br>Not to hate any person, for all are vicious; <br>And not be astonished at any evil, all are deserved; <br>And not fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.</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=509039" data-title="Original Sin de Robinson Jeffers" data-description="The man-brained and man-handed ground-ape, physically The most repulsive of all hot-blooded animals Up to that time of the world: they had dug a pitfall And caught a mammoth, but how could their sticks and stones Reach the life in that hide? T..."></div> </div> </div>

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