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I	A
A night the half moon was like a dancing girl	B
No like a drunkard's last half dollar	C
Shoved on the polished bar of the eastern hill range	D
Young Cauldwell rode his pony along the sea cliff	E
When she stopped spurred when she trembled drove	F
The teeth of the little jagged wheels so deep	G
They tasted blood the mare with four slim hooves	H
On a foot of ground pivoted like a top	I
Jumped from the crumble of sod went down caught slipped	J
Then the quick frenzy finished stiffening herself	K
Slid with her drunken rider down the ledges	L
Shot from sheer rock and broke	M
Her life out on the rounded tidal boulders	N
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The night you know accepted with no show of emotion the little	O
accident grave Orion	P
Moved northwest from the naked shore the moon moved to	Q
meridian the slow pulse of the ocean	P
Beat the slow tide came in across the slippery stones it drowned	R
the dead mare's muzzle and sluggishly	S
Felt for the rider Cauldwell s sleepy soul came back from the	T
blind course curious to know	U
What sea cold fingers tapped the walls of its deserted ruin	P
Pain pain and faintness crushing	V
Weights and a vain desire to vomit and soon again	W
die icy fingers they had crept over the loose hand and lay in the	T
hair now He rolled sidewise	X
Against mountains of weight and for another half hour lay still	Y
With a gush of liquid noises	L
The wave covered him head and all his body	S
Crawled without consciousness and like a creature with no bones	Z
a seaworm lifted its face	A2
Above the sea wrack of a stone then a white twilight grew about	B2
the moon and above	C2
The ancient water the everlasting repetition of the dawn You	Q
shipwrecked horseman	P
So many and still so many and now for you the last But when it	D2
grew daylight	E2
He grew quite conscious broken ends of bone ground on each	F2
other among the working fibers	N
While by half inches he was drawing himself out of the seawrack	V
up to sandy granite	G2
Out of the tide's path Where the thin ledge tailed into flat cliff	E
he fell asleep	G
Far seaward	H2
The daylight moon hung like a slip of cloud against the horizon	P
The tide was ebbing	V
From the dead horse and the black belt of sea growth Cauldwell	Y
seemed to have felt her crying beside him	I2
His mother who was dead He thought 'If I had a month or two	Q
of life yet	J2
I would remember to be decent only it's now too late I'm finished	K2
mother mother	C
I'm sorry ' After that he thought only of pain and raging thirst	L2
until the sundown	M2
Reddened the sea and hands were reaching for him and drawing	V
him up the cliff	E
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His sister Tamar	C
Nursed him in the big westward bedroom	N2
Of the old house on Point Lobos After fever	C
A wonderful day of peace and pleasant weakness	O2
Brought home to his heart the beauty of things 'O Tamar	C
I've thrown away years like rubbish Listen Tamar	C
It would be better for me to be a cripple	Y
Sit on the steps and watch the forest grow up the hill	Y
Or a new speck of moss on some old rock	V
That takes ten years agrowing than waste	P2
Shame and my spirit on Monterey rye whiskey	V
And worse and worse I shan't be a cripple Tamar	C
We'll walk along the blessed old gray sea	V
And up in the hills and watch the spring come home '	-
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Youth is a troublesome but a magical thing	V
There is little more to say for it when you've said	Q2
Young bones knit easily he that fell in December	C
Walked in the February fields His sister Tamar	C
Was with him and his mind ran on her name	R2
But she was saying 'We laugh at poor Aunt Stella	Y
With her spirit	G2
visitors Lee something told her truth	S2
Last August you were hunting deer you had been gone	T2
Ten days or twelve we heard her scream at night	E2
I went to the room she told me	V
She'd seen you lying all bloody on the sea beach	F2
By a dead deer its blood dabbling the black weeds of the ebb '	-
'I was up Tassajara way ' he answered	H2
'Far from the sea ' 'We were glad when you rode home	U2
Safe with the two bucks on the packhorse But listen	P
She said she watched the stars flying over you	Q
In her vision Orion she said and made me look	V
Out of her window southward where I saw	V2
The stars they call the Scorpion the red bead	W2
With the curling tail Then it will be in winter '	-
She whispered to me 'Orion is winter '	-
'Tamar Tamar	C
Winter is over visions are over and vanished	K2
The fields are winking full of poppies	X2
In a week or two I'll fill your arms with shining irises '	-
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The winter sun went under and all that night there came a roaring	V
from the south Lee Cauldwell	Y
Lay awake and heard the tough old house creak all her timbers	N
he was miserably lonely and vacant	Y2
He'd put away the boyish jets of wickedness loves with dark	V
eyes in Monterey back streets liquor	C
And all its fellowship what was left to live for but the farmwork	V
rain would come and hinder	C
He heard the cypress trees that seemed to scream in the wind	Z2
and felt the ocean pounding granite	G2
His father and Tamar's the old man David Cauldwell lay in the	Y
eastern chamber when the storm	A3
Wakened him from the heartless fugitive slumber of age he rose	B3
and made a light and lighted	C3
The lamp not cold yet night and day were nearly equal to him	I2
he had seen too many he dressed	D3
Slowly and opened his Bible In the neighboring rooms he heard	H2
on one side Stella Moreland	E3
His dead wife's sister quieting his own sister the idiot Jinny	P
Cauldwell who laughed and chuckled	F3
Often for half the night long an old woman with a child's mind	Z2
and mostly sleepless in the other	C
Chamber Tamar was moaning for it seemed that nightmare	C
Within the house answered to storm without	B2
To Tamar it seemed that she was walking by the seaside	G3
With her dear brother who said 'Here's where I fell	Y
A bad girl that I knew in Monterey pushed me over the cliff	E
You can see blood still on the boulders ' Where he vanished to	Q
She could not tell nor why she was crying 'Lee No	P
No dearest brother dearest brother no ' But she cried vainly	Y
Lee was not there to help her a wild white horse	H3
Came out of the wave and trampled her with his hooves	H
The horror that she had dreaded through her dreaming	V
With mystical foreknowledge When it wakened her	C
She like her father heard old Jinny chuckling	V
And Stella sighing and soothing her and the southwind	Q
Raging around the gables of the house and through the forest of	C2
the cypresses	H
'When it rains it will be quieter ' Tamar thought She slept	Q
again all night not a drop fell	Y
Old Cauldwell from his window saw the cloudy light seep up	I3
the sky from the overhanging	V
Hilltops the dawn was dammed behind the hills but overflowed	Q
at last and ran down on the sea	H
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II	A
Lee Cauldwell rode across the roaring southwind to the winter	C
pasture up in the hills	H
A hundred times he wanted Tamar to show her some new beauty	H
of canyon wildflowers water	C
Dashing its ferns or oaktrees thrusting elbows at the wind blackoaks	H
smoldering with foliage	J3
And the streaked beauty of white oak trunks and redwood	Q
glens he rode up higher across the rainwind	Q
And found his father's cattle in a quiet hollow among the hills	H
their horns to the wind	Q
Quietly grazing He returned another way from the headland	Q
over Wildcat Canyon	P
Saw the immense water possessing all the west and saw Point Lobos	H
Gemmed in it and the barn roofs and the house roof	K3
Like ships' keels in the cypress tops and thought of Tamar	C
Toward sundown he approached the house Will Andrews	H
Was leaving it and young Cauldwell said 'Listen Bill Andrews	H
We've had gay times together and ridden at night	Q
I've quit it I don't want my old friends to visit my sister	C
Better keep off the place ' 'I will ' said the other	C
'When Tamar tells me to ' 'You think my bones	H
Aren't mended yet better keep off ' Lee Cauldwell	Y
Rode by to the stable wondering why his lips	H
Twitched with such bitter anger Tamar wondered	Q
Why he went upstairs without a word or smile	Y
Of pleasure in her The old man David Cauldwell	Y
When Lee had told him news of the her	C

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