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I Reference to a Passage in Plutarch's Life of Sulla	A
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The people buying and selling consuming pleasures talking in the archways	B
Were all suddenly struck quiet	C
And ran from under stone to look up at the sky so shrill and mournful	A
So fierce and final a brazen	D
Pealing of trumpets high up in the air in the summer blue over Tuscany	E
They marvelled the soothsayers answered	F
'Although the Gods are little troubled toward men at the end of each period	G
A sign is declared in heaven	D
Indicating new times new customs a changed people the Romans	B
Rule and Etruria is finished	H
A wise mariner will trim the sails to the wind '	-
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I heard yesterday	I
So shrill and mournful a trumpet blast	J
It was hard to be wise You must eat change and endure not be much troubled	K
For the people they will have their happiness	B
When the republic grows too heavy to endure then Caesar will carry It	L
When life grows hateful there's power	M
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II To the Children	D
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Power's good life is not always good but power's good	N
So you must think when abundance	B
Makes pawns of people and all the loaves are one dough	O
The steep singleness of passion	D
Dies they will say 'What was that ' but the power triumphs	B
Loveliness will live under glass	B
And beauty will go savage in the secret mountains	B
There is beauty in power also	O
You children must widen your minds' eyes to take mountains	B
Instead of faces and millions	B
Instead of persons not to hate life and massed power	M
After the lone hawk's dead	P
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III	Q
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That light blood loving weasel a tongue of yellow	O
Fire licking the sides of the gray stones	B
Has a more passionate and more pure heart	R
In the snake slender flanks than man can imagine	D
But he is betrayed by his own courage	S
The man who kills him is like a cloud hiding a star	T
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Then praise the jewel eyed hawk and the tall blue heron	D
The black cormorants that fatten their sea rock	U
With shining slime even that ruiner of anthills	B
The red shafted woodpecker flying	V
A white star between blood color wing clouds	B
Across the glades of the wood and the green lakes of shade	W
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These live their felt natures they know their norm	X
And live it to the brim they understand life	Y
While men moulding themselves to the anthill have choked	Z
Their natures until the souls the in them	A2
They have sold themselves for toys and protection	D
No but consider awhile what else Men sold for toys	B
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Uneasy and fractional people having no center	M
But in the eyes and mouths that surround them	A2
Having no function but to serve and support	B2
Civilization the enemy of man	C2
No wonder they live insanely and desire	M
With their tongues progress with their eyes pleasure with their hearts death	D2
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Their ancestors were good hunters good herdsmen and swordsman	C2
But now the world is turned upside down	C2
The good do evil the hope's in criminals in vice	B
That dissolves the cities and war to destroy them	A2
Through wars and corruptions the house will fall	A
Mourn whom it falls on Be glad the house is mined it will fall	A
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Rain hail and brutal sun the plow in the roots	B
The pitiless pruning iron in the branches	B
Strengthen the vines they are all feeding friends	B
Or powerless foes until the grapes purple	A
But when you have ripened your berries it is time to begin to perish	E2
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The world sickens with change rain becomes poison	C2
The earth is a pit it Is time to perish	E2
The vines are fey the very kindness of nature	M
Corrupts what her cruelty before strengthened	F2
When you stand on the peak of time it is time to begin to perish	E2
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Reach down the long morbid roots that forget the plow	A
Discover the depths let the long pale tendrils	B
Spend all to discover the sky now nothing is good	N
But only the steel mirrors of discovery	E
And the beautiful enormous dawns of time after we perish	E2
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V	E
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Mourning the broken balance the hopeless prostration of the earth	G2
Under men's hands and their minds	B
The beautiful places killed like rabbits to make a city	E
The spreading fungus the slime threads	B
And spores my own coast's obscene future I remember the farther	M
Future and the last man dying	V
Without succession under the confident eyes of the stars	B
It was only a moment's accident	H2
The race that plagued us the world resumes the old lonely immortal	A
Splendor from here I can even	C2
Perceive that that snuffed candle had something a fantastic virtue	I2
A faint and unshapely pathos	B
So death will flatter them at last what even the bald ape's by shot	J2
Was moderately admirable	A
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VI Palinode	J2
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All summer neither rain nor wave washes the cormorants'	B
Perch and their droppings have painted it shining white	J2
If the excrement of fish eaters makes the brown rock a snow mountain	C2
At noon a rose in the morning a beacon at moonrise	B
On the black water it is barely possible that even men's present	J2
Lives are something their arts and sciences by moonlight	J2
Not wholly ridiculous nor their cities merely an offense	B
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VII	E
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Under my windows between the road and the sea cliff bitter wild grass	B
Stands narrowed between the people and the storm	X
The ocean winter after winter gnaws at its earth the wheels and the feet	J2
Summer after summer encroach and destroy	K2
Stubborn green life for the cliff eater I cannot comfort you ignorant which color	M
Gray blue or pale green will please the late stars	B
But laugh at the other your seed shall enjoy wonderful vengeances and suck	L2
The arteries and walk in triumph on the faces	B

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