Name: Shine, Perishing Republic
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Description: Here's my new 'spoken word with music' release. The subject matter may seem uh timely, but the words were written in 1924 by California poet Robinson Jeffers.

Shine, Perishing Republic

by Fercris Hart

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Here's my new 'spoken word with music' release. The subject matter may seem uh timely, but the words were written in 1924 by California poet Robinson Jeffers.

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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,
I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth.
Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness and decadence; and home to the mother.

You making haste haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly
A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.
But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the thick- ening center; corruption
Never has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.
And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant,
insufferable master.
There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught- they say-
God, when [s]he walked on earth.

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released September 21, 2022
Spoken Word: Fercris Hart

Artwork from "The Leonid meteor showers of 1833 over Niagara Falls" by Edmund Weiss.

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Fercris Hart San Luis Obispo, California

My protest is revolting, every joke is a tiny revolution.

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