====== Rearmament ======

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source           : [[http://dark-mountain.net/about/faqs/rearmament/ | dark-mountain.net]]
author           : [[http://www.robinsonjeffersassociation.org/ | Robinson Jeffers]]
date             : in 1935
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description      : Written during the run-up to World War Two. Jeffers saw the coming war as inevitable, tragic and world-changing. He believed it would be a disaster, but he also knew he could do nothing to stop it.
seealso          : \\ See also: [[library:confessions_of_a_recovering_environmentalist]]
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<WRAP indent>//Written during the run-up to World War Two. Jeffers saw the coming war as inevitable, tragic and world-changing. He believed it would be a disaster, but he also knew he could do nothing to stop it.//</WRAP>

These grand and fatal movements toward death: the grandeur of the mass \\ 
Makes pity a fool, the tearing pity \\ 
For the atoms of the mass, the persons, the victims, makes it seem monstrous \\ 
To admire the tragic beauty they build. \\ 
It is beautiful as a river flowing or a slowly gathering \\ 
Glacier on a high mountain rock-face, \\ 
Bound to plow down a forest, or as frost in November, \\ 
The gold and flaming death-dance for leaves, \\ 
Or a girl in the night of her spent maidenhood, bleeding and kissing. \\ 
I would burn my right hand in a slow fire \\ 
To change the future … I should do foolishly. The beauty of modern \\ 
Man is not in the persons but in the \\ 
Disastrous rhythm, the heavy and mobile masses, the dance of the \\ 
Dream-led masses down the dark mountain.

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