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People And A Heron by Robinson Jeffers
A desert of weed and water-
darkened stone under my western
windows
The ebb lasted all afternoon,
And many pieces of humanity, men, women, and children, gath-
ering shellfish,
Swarmed with voices of gulls the sea-breach.
At twilight they went off together, the verge was left vacant, an
evening heron
Bent broad wings over the black ebb,
And left me wondering why a lone bird was dearer to me than
many people.
Well: rare is dear: but also I suppose
Well reconciled with the world but not with our own natures
we grudge to see them
Reflected on the world for a mirror.