The Eye - Robinson Jeffers

Recite the poem by Robinson Jeffers line by line. The first word of each line is given as a hint.

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Hint	Answer
The	The Atlantic is a stormy moat
and	and the Mediterranean
the	the blue pool in the old garden
More	More than five thousand years has drunk sacrifice
of	of ships and blood, and shines in the sun
but	but here the Pacific
our	our ships, planes, wars are perfectly irrelevant
Neither	Neither our present blood-feud with the brave dwarfs
nor	nor any future world-quarrel of westering
of	of westering and eastering man, the bloody migrations
greed	greed of power, clash of faiths
is	is a speck of dust on the great scale-pan
Here	Here from this mountain shore
headland	headland beyond stormy headland
plunging	plunging like dolphins through the blue sea-smoke
Into	Into pale sea, look west at the hill of water
it	it is half the planet
this	this dome, this half-globe
this	this bulging eyeball of water arched over to Asia
Australia	Australia and white Antartica
those	those are the eyelids that never close
this	this is the staring unsleeping eye of the earth
and	and what it watches is not our wars.

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