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At dawn a knot of sea-lions lies off the shore
In the slow swell between the rock and the cliff,
Sharp flippers lifted, or great-eyed heads, as they roll in the sea,
Bigger than draft-horses, and barking like dogs
Their all-night song. It makes me wonder a little
That life near kin to human, intelligent, hot-blooded, idle and
singing, can float at ease
In the ice-cold midwinter water. Then, yellow dawn
Colors the south, I think about the rapid and furious lives
in the sun :
They have little to do with ours; they have nothing to do with
oxygen and salted water ; they would look monstrous
If we could see them : the beautiful passionate bodies of living
flame, batlike flapping and screaming,
Tortured with burning lust and acute awareness, that ride the
storm-tides
Of the great fire-globe. They are animals, as we are. There are
many other chemistries of animal life
Besides the slow oxidation of carbohydrates and amino-acids.
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~ Robinson Jeffers
The heart knows
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The specific forms that love take in our lives arise and pass in time, for
this is the way of form. Time is the great dissolver. But love itself is
that w...
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