Education Of a Wandering Man (1990)

by L'amour, Louis

  Death’s a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made Something more equal to the centuries Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

  The mountains are dead stone, the people Admire or hate their stature, their insolent quietness, The mountains are not softened nor troubled And a few dead men’s thoughts have the same temper.

  —Robinson Jeffers from “Wise Men in Their Bad Hours”