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var poem = "Now we will count to twelve\n" +
"and we will all keep still\n" +
"For once on the face of the earth,\n" +
"let's stop for a second,\n" +
"and not move our arms so much.\n" +
"It would be an exotic moment\n" +
"without rush, without engines;\n" +
"we would all be together\n" +
"in a sudden strangeness.\n" +
"Fisherman in the cold sea\n" +
"would not harm whales\n" +
"and the man gathering salt\n" +
"would not look at his hurt hands.\n" +
"Those who prepare green wars,\n" +
"wars with gas, wars with fire,\n" +
"victories with no survivors,\n" +
"would put on clean clothes\n" +
"and walk about with their brothers\n" +
"in the shade, doing nothing.\n" +
"What I want should not be confused\n" +
"with total inactivity.\n" +
"Life is what it is about;...\n" +
"If we were not so single-minded\n" +
"about keeping our lives moving,\n" +
"and for once could do nothing,\n" +
"perhaps a huge silence\n" +
"might interrupt this sadness\n" +
"of never understanding ourselves\n" +
"and of threatening ourselves with death.\n" +
"Perhaps the earth can teach us\n" +
"as when everything seems dead in winter\n" +
"and later proves to be alive.\n" +
"Now I'll count up to twelve\n" +
"and you keep quiet and I will go. \n" +
"Something\n" +
"just now\n" +
"moved through my heart\n" +
"like the thinnest of blades\n" +
"as that red-tail pumped\n" +
"once with its great wings\n" +
"and flew above the gray, cracked\n" +
"rock wall.\n" +
"It wasn't\n" +
"about the bird, it was\n" +
"something about the way\n" +
"stone stays\n" +
"mute and put, whatever\n" +
"goes flashing by.\n" +
"Sometimes,\n" +
"when I sit like this, quiet,\n" +
"all the dreams of my blood\n" +
"and all outrageous divisions of time\n" +
"seem ready to leave,\n" +
"to slide out of me.\n" +
"Then, I imagine, I would never move.\n" +
"By now\n" +
"the hawk has flown five miles\n" +
"at least,\n" +
"dazzling whoever else has happened\n" +
"to look up.\n" +
"I was dazzled. But that\n" +
"wasn't the knife.\n" +
"It was the sheer, dense wall\n" +
"of blind stone\n" +
"without a pinch of hope\n" +
"or a single unfulfilled desire\n" +
"sponging up and reflecting,\n" +
"so brilliantly,\n" +
"as it has for centuries,\n" +
"the sun's fire.\n" +
"An eagle's nest on the head of an old redwood on one of the\n" +
"precipice-footed ridges\n" +
"Above Ventana Creek, that jagged country which nothing but a\n" +
"falling meteor will ever plow; no horseman\n" +
"Will ever ride there, no hunter cross this ridge but the winged\n" +
"ones, no one will steal the eggs from this fortress.\n" +
"The she-eagle is old, her mate was shot long ago, she is now mated\n" +
"with a son of hers.\n" +
"When lightning blasted her nest she built it again on the same\n" +
"tree, in the splinters of the thunderbolt.\n" +
"The she-eagle is older than I; she was here when the fires of\n" +
"eighty-five raged on these ridges,\n" +
"She was lately fledged and dared not hunt ahead of them but ate\n" +
"scorched meat. The world has changed in her time;\n" +
"Humanity has multiplied, but not here; men's hopes and thoughts\n" +
"and customs have changed, their powers are enlarged,\n" +
"Their powers and their follies have become fantastic,\n" +
"The unstable animal never has been changed so rapidly. The\n" +
"motor and the plane and the great war have gone over him,\n" +
"And Lenin has lived and Jehovah died: while the mother-eagle\n" +
"Hunts her same hills, crying the same beautiful and lonely cry and\n" +
"is never tired; dreams the same dreams,\n" +
"And hears at night the rock-slides rattle and thunder in the throats\n" +
"of these living mountains.\n" +
"It is good for man\n" +
"To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and\n" +
"anguish, not to go down the dinosaur's way\n" +
"Until all his capacities have been explored: and it is good for him\n" +
"To know that his needs and nature are no more changed in fact\n" +
"in ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles.";