The Philosophy of Despair

Jordan, David Starr · 1931

A darkening sky and a whitening sea, And the wind in the palm trees tall; Soon or late comes a call for me, Down from the mountain or up from the sea, Then let me lie where I fall. And a friend may write--for friends there be, On a stone from the gray sea wall, "Jungle and town and reef and sea-- I loved God's Earth and His Earth loved me, Taken for all in all."…

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