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The world's in a bad way, my man,
And bound to be worse before it mends;
Better lie up in the mountain here
Four or five centuries,
While the stars go over the lonely ocean...
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"The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean" (1940)

 

Robinson Jeffers

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