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I can't believe I studied this as a teenager - Robert Frost was one of our O or A Level authors (too long ago to remember which!!). Anyway, without further ado, Mending Wall: Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Tags: robert frost
Current Location: the sofa
Current Mood:  exhausted
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Lovers of Words ...
An amusing list I found elsewhere .... enjoy!
| 1. | A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired. | | 2. | A will is a dead giveaway | | 3. | Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. | | 4. | A backward poet writes inverse. | | 5. | In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes. | | 6. | A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion. | | 7. | If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed. | | 8. | With her marriage she got a new name and a dress. | | 9. | Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat miner. | | 10. | When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds. | | 11. | The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered. | | 12. | You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it. | | 13. | Local Area Network in Australia : The LAN down under. | | 14. | He broke into song because he couldn't find the key. | | 15. | A calendar's days are numbered. | | 16. | A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine. | | 17. | A boiled egg is hard to beat. | | 18. | He had a photographic memory which was never developed. | | 19. | A plateau is a high form of flattery. | | 20. | A short fortune teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large. | | 21. | Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end. | | 22. | When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall. | | 23. | If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine. | | 24. | When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye. | | 25. | Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis. | | 26. | Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses. | | 27. | Acupuncture: a jab well done. |
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