Here is a symbol in which <br />Many high tragic thoughts <br />Watch their own eyes. <br /> <br />This gray rock, standing tall <br />On the headland, where the seawind <br />Lets no tree grow, <br /> <br />Earthquake-proved, and signatured <br />By ages of storms: on its peak <br />A falcon has perched. <br /> <br />I think here is your emblem <br />To hang in the future sky; <br />Not the cross, not the hive, <br /> <br />But this; bright power, dark peace; <br />Fierce consciousness joined with final <br />Disinterestedness; <br /> <br />Life with calm death; the falcon's <br />Realist eyes and act <br />Married to the massive <br /> <br />Mysticism of stone, <br />Which failure cannot cast down <br />Nor success make proud.<br /><br />Robinson Jeffers<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rock-and-hawk/
