Andrew Marvell: To his Coy Mistress (Rough Pleasures of the Alt-Right, Seizing Its Moment: "Now let us sport us while we may")

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Hundreds of alt-right and neo-nazis rallying in Berkeley right now. Police checking people for weapons.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

To his Coy Mistress

Had we but World enough, and Time,

This coyness Lady were no crime.

We would sit down, and think which way

To walk, and pass our long Loves Day.

Thou by the Indian Ganges side

Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide

Of Humber would complain. I would

Love you ten years before the Flood:

And you should if you please refuse

Till the Conversion of the Jews.

My vegetable Love should grow

Vaster then Empires, and more slow.

An hundred years should go to praise

Thine Eyes, and on thy Forehead Gaze.

Two hundred to adore each Breast:

But thirty thousand to the rest.

An Age at least to every part,

And the last Age should show your Heart.

For Lady you deserve this State;

Nor would I love at lower rate.

   But at my back I alwaies hear

Times winged Charriot hurrying near:

And yonder all before us lye

Desarts of vast Eternity.

Thy Beauty shall no more be found;

Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound

My ecchoing Song: then Worms shall try

That long preserv'd Virginity:

And your quaint Honour turn to dust:

And into ashes all my Lust.

The Grave's a fine and private place,

But none I think do there embrace.

   Now therefore, while the youthful hew

Sits on thy skin like morning dew,

And while thy willing Soul transpires

At every pore with instant Fires,

Now let us sport us while we may;

And now, like am'rous birds of prey,

Rather at once our Time devour,

Than languish in his slow chapt pow'r.

Let us roll all our Strength, and all

Our sweetness, up into one Ball

And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,

Thorough the Iron gates of Life.

Thus, though we cannot make our Sun

Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678): To his Coy Mistress, from Miscellaneous Poems, 1681

Straight up nazis in Berkeley. Guy on left said he was a "national socialist".: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

 
this nazi literally took a huge swig of milk before running into battle: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

 

Proud Boys in Berkeley. Shoved me and told me I was fake news.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

This dude walking around behind alt-right lines in Berkeley offering them "empathy chocolates.": image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

Anti-semitism meets anti-vaxer in Berkeley.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017
 

Alt-right repping anti-vaxers.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

that alt-right fashion tho: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

Three percenter militia providing security at Berkeley rally.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

"In terms of safe spaces, I feel safer around Trump supporters than anywhere else," says gay Trump supporter.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

infowars ftw : image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

Alt-right spoiling for a fight.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

Berkeley: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

Some people set up an "empathy tent" at the pro-Trump rally in Berkeley. Totally empty.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

he told me he's out here representing: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

this guy was shouting "Latinos for Trump": image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

This dude has been fighting in Berkeley all day.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

This guy has been in full-on battle mode all day at Berkeley.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

Berkeley.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

After hours of street fights, alt-right, proud boys, and nazis have taken downtown Berkeley.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

 

Right wing guy shouts at anarchist: "This is funded by Soros! You are fighting for the man! Do your research!!!": image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

Downtown Berkeley.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

The far right is holding downtown Berkeley right now.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

Berkeley.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

Charlie from Castro Valley: "I hope that the left realizes it doesn't have a stranglehold" on Berkeley. "They used to. Now...": image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

Berkeley.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

Libertarian journalist @Lauren_Southern had Proud Boys as her security.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

 "I think Europeans have the right not to be offended," says man with bubbles in Berkeley.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

this guy, keeping it Berkeley af: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

Berkeley.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

 Berkeley.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

 Militias, alt-right, nazis etc won today in Berkeley. They outnumbered the opposition, pushed it back, and held downtown. Today's America.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

This guy just went "on the record" to say "black people are inferior to whites, genetically". #PatriotsDay #Berkeley: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017

So nuts to see Trump supporters of color next to guys sieg heiling.: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017
 

 This is him: image via Shane Bauer Verified account @shane_bauer, 15 April 2017