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Meditation On Saviors

© Robinson Jeffers

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When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element
and smelt it like water,
Life is become less lovely, the net nearer than the skin, a
little troublesome, a little terrible.

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Time Of Disturbance

© Robinson Jeffers

The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive
life, not to take sides.
Leave it for children, and the emotional rabble of the
streets, to back their horse or support a brawler.

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The Broken Balance

© Robinson Jeffers

I heard yesterday
So shrill and mournful a trumpet-blast,
It was hard to be wise.... You must eat change and endure; not be much troubled
For the people; they will have their happiness.
When the republic grows too heavy to endure, then Caesar will carry It;
When life grows hateful, there's power ...

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Contemplation Of The Sword

© Robinson Jeffers

Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,
formerly used to kill men, but here
In the sense of a symbol. The sword: that is: the storms

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Ave Caesar

© Robinson Jeffers

No bitterness: our ancestors did it.
They were only ignorant and hopeful, they wanted freedom but wealth too.
Their children will learn to hope for a Caesar.
Or rather--for we are not aquiline Romans but soft mixed colonists--

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The Great Explosion

© Robinson Jeffers

The universe expands and contracts like a great heart.
It is expanding, the farthest nebulae
Rush with the speed of light into empty space.
It will contract, the immense navies of stars and galaxies,

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July Fourth By The Ocean

© Robinson Jeffers

The continent's a tamed ox, with all its mountains,
Powerful and servile; here is for plowland, here is
for park and playground, this helpless
Cataract for power; it lies behind us at heel

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The Purse-Seine

© Robinson Jeffers

Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark
of the moon; daylight or moonlight
They could not tell where to spread the net,
unable to see the phosphorescence of the

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Shine, Perishing Republic

© Robinson Jeffers

While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening
to empire
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the
mass hardens,

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Psalm XXXVI: High in the Heav'ns

© Isaac Watts

High in the heav'ns, eternal God,
Thy goodness in full glory shines;
Thy truth shall break through ev'ry cloud
That veils and darkens thy designs.

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Psalm XXXIV: Lord, I Will Bless Thee

© Isaac Watts

Lord, I will bless thee all my days,
Thy praise shall dwell upon my tongue;
My soul shall glory in thy grace,
While saints rejoice to hear the song.

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Psalm LXXIV: Will God For Ever Cast Us Off?

© Isaac Watts

Will God for ever east us off?
His wrath for ever smoke
Against the people of' his love,
His little chosen flock?

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Psalm 97

© Isaac Watts

v.1,3,5-7,11
C. M.
Christ's incarnation, and the last judgment.

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Psalm 95

© Isaac Watts

Sing to the Lord Jehovah's name,
And in his strength rejoice;
When his salvation is our theme,
Exalted be our voice.

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Psalm 94 part 1

© Isaac Watts

v.1,2,7-14
C. M.
Saints chastised, and sinners destroyed; or, Instructive afflictions.

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Psalm 91 part 1

© Isaac Watts

v.1-7
L. M.
Safety in public diseases and dangers.

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Psalm 90 part 3

© Isaac Watts

v.13ff
C. M.
Breathing after heaven.

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Psalm 9 part 2

© Isaac Watts

v.12
C. M.
The wisdom and equity of Providence.

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Psalm 89 part 5

© Isaac Watts

v.30ff
C. M.
The covenant of grace unchangeable.

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Psalm 89

© Isaac Watts

For ever shall my song record
The truth and mercy of the Lord;
Mercy and truth for ever stand,
Like heav'n, established by his hand.