Contrast Analysis

Cawdor and other poems1928The world has many seas, Mediterranean, Atlantic, buthere is the shore of the one ocean.

And here the heavy future hangs like a cloud; theenormous scene; the enormous games preparing

Weigh on the water and strain the rock; the stage ishere, the play is conceived; the players arenot found.I saw on the Sierras, up the Kaweah valley above theMoro rock, the mountain redwoods

Like red towers on the slopes of snow; about theirbases grew a bushery of Christmas green,

Firs and pines to be monuments for pilgrimage

In Europe; I remembered the Swiss forests, the darkrobes of Pilatus, no trunk like these there;

But these are underwood; they are only a shrubberyabout the boles of the trees.Our people are clever and masterful;

They have powers in the mass, they accomplish marvels.It is possible Time will make them before itannuls them, but at present

There is not one memorable person, there is not onemind to stand with the trees, one life withthe mountains.

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