Saturday, November 02, 2019
The Acts of a Sick Microbe
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), "De Rerum Virtute," § IV:
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Indeed it is hard to see beautyId. § V:
In any of the acts of man: but that means the acts of a sick microbe
On a satellite of a dust-grain twirled in a whirlwind
In the world of stars ....
Something perhaps may come of him; in any event
He can't last long.
One light is left us: the beauty of things, not men;
The immense beauty of the world, not the human world.
