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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509104" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Truce And The Peace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(NOVEMBER, 1918)<br>Peace now for every fury has had her day,<br>Their natural make is moribund, they cease,<br>They carry the inward seeds of quick decay,<br>Build breakwaters for storm but build on peace.<br>The mountains' peace answers the peace of the stars,<br>Our petulances are cracked against their term.<br>God built our peace and plastered it with wars,<br>Those frescoes fade, flake off, peace remains firm.<br>In the beginning before light began<br>We lay or fluttered blind in burdened wombs,<br>And like that first so is the last of man,<br>When under death for husband the amorous tombs<br>Are covered and conceived; nine months go by<br>No midwife called, nine years no baby's cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II<br>Peace now, though purgatory fires were hot<br>They always had a heart something like ice<br>That coldly peered and wondered, suffering not<br>Nor pleased in any park, nor paradise<br>Of slightly swelling breasts and beautiful arms<br>And throat engorged with very carnal blood.<br>It coldly peered and wondered, 'Strong God your charms<br>Are glorious, I remember solitude.<br>Before youth towered we knew a time of truth<br>To have eyes was nearly rapture.' Peace now, for war<br>Will find the cave that childhood found and youth.<br>Ten million lives are stolen and not one star<br>Dulled; wars die out, life will die out, death cease,<br>Beauty lives always and the beauty of peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III<br>Peace to the world in time or in a year,<br>In the inner world I have touched the instant peace.<br>Man's soul's a flawless crystal coldly clear,<br>A cold white mansion that he yields in lease<br>To tenant dreams and tyrants from the brain<br>And riotous burnings of the lovelier flesh.<br>We pour strange wines and purples all in vain.<br>The crystal remains pure, the mansion fresh.<br>All the Asian bacchanals and those from Thrace<br>Lived there and left no wine-mark on the walls.<br>What were they doing in that more sacred place<br>All the Asian and the Thracian bacchanals?<br>Peace to the world to-morrow or in a year,<br>Peace in that mansion white, that crystal clear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV<br>Peace now poor earth. They fought for freedom's sake,<br>She was starving in a corner while they fought.<br>They knew not whom they stabbed by Onega Lake,<br>Whom lashed from Archangel, whom loved, whom sought.<br>How can she die, she is the blood unborn,<br>The energy in earth's arteries beating red,<br>The world will flame with her in some great morn,<br>The whole great world flame with her, and we be dead.<br>Here in the west it grows by dim degrees,<br>In the east flashed and will flame terror and light.<br>Peace now poor earth, peace to that holier peace<br>Deep in the soul held secret from all sight.<br>That crystal, the pure home, the holier peace,<br>Fires flaw not, scars the crudest cannot crease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V<br>South of the Big Sur River up the hill<br>Three graves are marked thick weeds and grasses heap,<br>Under the forest there I have stood still<br>Hours, thinking it the sweetest place to sleep , . .<br>Strewing all-sufficient death with compliments<br>Sincere and unrequired, coveting peace . . .<br>Boards at the head not stones, the text's rude paints<br>Mossed, rain-rubbed . . . wasting hours of scanty lease<br>To admire their peace made perfect. From that height<br>But for the trees the whole valley might be seen,<br>But for the heavy dirt, the eye-pits no light<br>Enters, the heavy dirt, the grass growing green<br>Over the dirt, the molelike secretness,<br>The immense withdrawal, the dirt, the quiet, the peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI<br>Women cried that morning, bells rocked with mirth,<br>We all were glad a long while afterward,<br>But still in dreary places of the earth<br>A hundred hardly fed shall labor hard<br>To clothe one belly and stuff it with soft meat,<br>Blood paid for peace but still those poor shall buy it,<br>This sweat of slaves is no good wine but yet<br>Sometimes it climbs to the brain. Be happy and quiet,<br>Be happy and live, be quiet or God might wake.<br>He sleeps in the mountain that is heart of man's heart,<br>He also in promontory fists, and make<br>Of stubborn-muscled limbs, he will not start<br>For a little thing ... his great hands grope, unclose,<br>Feel out for the main pillars . . . pull down the house . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII<br>After all, after all we endured, who has grown wise?<br>We take our mortal momentary hour<br>With too much gesture, the derisive skies<br>Twinkle against our wrongs, our rights, our power.<br>Look up the night, starlight's a steadying draught<br>For nerves at angry tension. They have all meant well,<br>Our enemies and the knaves at whom we've laughed,<br>The liars, the clowns in office, the kings in hell,<br>fhey have all meant well in the main . . . some of them tried<br>The mountain road of tolerance . . . They have made war,<br>Conspired, oppressed, robbed, murdered, lied and lied,<br>Meant well, played the loud fool . . . and star by star<br>Winter Orion pursues the Pleiades<br>In pale and huge parade, silence and peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VIII<br>That ice within the soul, the admonisher<br>Of madness when we're wildest, the unwinking eye<br>That measures all things with indifferent stare,<br>Choosing far stars to check near objects by,<br>That quiet lake inside and underneath,<br>Strong, undisturbed by any angel of strife,<br>Being so tranquil seems the presence of death,<br>Being so central seems the essence of life.<br>Is it perhaps that death and life make truce<br>In neutral zone while their old feud beyond<br>Fires the towered cities? Surely for a strange use<br>He sphered that eye of flawless diamond.<br>It does not serve him but with line and rod<br>Measures him, how indeed should God serve God?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IX<br>It does not worship him, it will not serve.<br>And death and life within that Eye combine,<br>Within that only untorturable nerve<br>Of those that make a man, within that shrine<br>Which there is nothing ever can profane,<br>Where life and death are sister and brother and lovers,<br>The golden voice of Christ were heard in vain,<br>The holy spirit of God visibly hovers.<br>Small-breasted girls, lithe women heavy-haired,<br>Loves that once grew into our nerves and veins,<br>Yours Freedom was desire that deeper dared<br>To the citadel where mastery remains,<br>Yours to the spirit . . . discount the penny that is<br>Ungivable, this Eye, this God, this Peace.<br>All in a simple innocence I strove<br>To give myself away to any power,<br>Wasting on women's bodies wealth of love,<br>Worshipping every sunrise mountain tower;<br>Some failure mocked me still denying perfection,<br>Parts of me might be spended not the whole,<br>I sought of wine surrender and self-correction,<br>I failed, I could not give away my soul.<br>Again seeking to give myself I sought<br>Outward in vain through all things, out through God,<br>And tried all heights, all gulfs, all dreams, all thought.<br>I found this wisdom on the wonderful road,<br>The essential Me cannot be given away,<br>The single Eye, God cased in blood-shot clay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XI<br>Peace to the world in time or in a year,<br>But always all our lives this peace was ours.<br>Peace is not hard to have, it lies more near<br>Than breathing to the breast. When brigand powers<br>Of anger or pain or the sick dream of sin<br>Break our soul's house outside the ruins we weep.<br>We look through the breached wall, why there within<br>All the red while our peace was lying asleep.<br>Smiling in dreams while the broad knives drank blood,<br>The robbers triumphed, the roof burned overhead,<br>The eternal living and untroubled God<br>Lying asleep upon a lily bed.<br>Men screamed, the bugles screamed, walls broke in the air,<br>We never knew till then that He was there.</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>
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Peace now for every fury has had her day,
Their natural make is moribund, they cease,
They carry the inward seeds of quick decay,
Build breakwaters for storm but build on peace.
The mountains' peace answers the peace of the stars,..."></div>
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