<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509057" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shine, Perishing Republic</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening <br> to empire<br>And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the<br> mass hardens,<br>I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots <br> to make earth.<br>Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness and deca-<br> dence; and home to the mother.<br> <br>You making haste haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stub-<br> bornly long or suddenly<br>A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: <br> shine, perishing republic.<br>But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the thick-<br> ening center; corruption<br>Never has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster's feet there <br> are left the mountains.<br>And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant, <br> insufferable master.<br>There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught--they say--<br> God, when he walked on earth.</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=509057" data-title="Shine, Perishing Republic de Robinson Jeffers" data-description="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 fr..."></div> </div> </div>

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