{"id":2095,"date":"2013-02-22T12:49:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2013-02-22T12:49:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:49:34","slug":"the-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/the-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Robinson Jeffers<\/p>\n<div>Mountains, a moment\u2019s earth-waves rising and hollowing; the earth too\u2019s an ephemerid; the stars\u2014<\/div>\n<div>Short-lived as grass the stars quicken in the nebula and dry in their summer, they spiral<\/div>\n<div>Blind up space, scattered black seeds of a future; nothing lives long, the whole sky\u2019s<\/div>\n<div>Recurrences tick the seconds of the hours of the ages of the gulf before birth, and the gulf<\/div>\n<div>After death is like dated: to labor eighty years in a notch of eternity is nothing too tiresome,<\/div>\n<div>Enormous repose after, enormous repose before, the flash of activity.<\/div>\n<div>Surely you never have dreamed the incredible depths were prologue and epilogue merely<\/div>\n<div>To the surface play in the sun, the instant of life, what is called life? I fancy<\/div>\n<div>That silence is the thing, this noise a found word for it; interjection, a jump of the breath at that silence;<\/div>\n<div>Stars burn, grass grows, men breathe: as a man finding treasure says \u201cAh!\u201d but the treasure\u2019s the essence:<\/div>\n<div>Before the man spoke it was there, and after he has spoken he gathers it, inexhaustible treasure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on February 17,2013<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Robinson Jeffers Mountains, a moment\u2019s earth-waves rising and hollowing; the earth too\u2019s an ephemerid; the stars\u2014 Short-lived as grass the stars quicken in the nebula and dry in their summer, they spiral Blind up space, scattered black seeds of a future; nothing lives long, the whole sky\u2019s Recurrences tick the seconds of the hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}