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That's really funny. This reading tonight is a continuation of a small and form of fortnightly says it takes place

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in the lounge of Crown Hall. Request for C ring. I said I'd read poems from today, modern lyric poet,

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Robert Frost and a house when I see that many in the audience beyond the subsidy lyric poetry before on. So i, so feel free to indulge myself and

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a few favorite remark that some of you have heard before. The most important thing about lyric poetry is that

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is the one continuous communication we have with the remote past. We have nothing else. No other secret communication with the task.

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I say to you, for example, I go into the fields and I watch the birds flying. No. I feel homesick

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because my country lies. No, no. And nobody speaks my language in this country. That's perfectly modern, isn't it?

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And it's something everybody cell is. Nobody in this room probably hasn't felt homesick at one time or another. And yet that lyric poem

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is about 4000 years old. It was written by an ancient Egyptian, and that's the literal translation. And you get more complicated feelings,

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fast answers also. For example, here's a poem about a baby. Families when a child is born, want it to be Intelligence.

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Ai, through intelligence. Having wrecked my whole life. Only hope the baby will prove ignorant and stupid.

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Then he will found a friend for life. By making a success in politics. Toy was written about the year 700 AD in China.

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So you see what I mean? I say Larry for communication between ages. And you've been considers lyric voice almost as signals.

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Signal FMRI, signaling from one age to another. So it is 2. There's a continuity. Tradition is

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the most term growth in a new world. Even a theorem is do not survive in such perfection as they are lyric poems.

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And furthermore, the pyramids don't speak to as merely South LA. Even. The buildings on the Acropolis itself.

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Tell us only one side of the story. And of course, they alas, are in ruins. Buffalo. The lyric firms, always fresh.

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They always speak to us. And time from face to face and neck country, there is no death at all. I started the culture and

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our epigram, that subject. So I better not take up too much time. You don't need too many examples to show you a few.

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Well now the two poets I'm going to read found NOW, Robert Frost and a husband are very different in

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many ways and yet they share certain characteristics and others in the first place. All poets, I learned people.

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I can't think off hand. And learned poet. They are highly educated men, all well-read man and all very conscious of

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this task that I speak out this signaling from age to age, century, essentially if millennium, millennium,

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they all know that they're all full of references to the past and they're all speaking to the future to. And in the last analysis

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in a timeless country. For now, does that mean that thoughts are going to become complicated and difficult?

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Not to thaw them all learned in the wiser FIFO the thumb. Some are still seems like it takes long experience to produce real simplicity.

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Because it's only natural. When we're young in the world, we have to build up a certain series of defenses and locations and so on.

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Which bit by bit we shed. Well, a poet starts out by sharing those physical thoughts and speaking right now,

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and he's speaking with the voice or the ages. Now. Haussmann is a pessimistic poem. Frost is an optimistic poet.

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And I use those terms in the largest sense. Sense. First believes in life. It must be. I want life to go on living.

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He says in one of his poems, he is against death. These against destruction is for immortality. He fell life. Not a house

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with a very sharp ears. And before I came up to the platform, I heard someone say, is Haussmann dead? And Yale fellows that I think self,

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I think he committed suicide. And the first to schedule, if he didn't, he ought to have. Well, there's a great deal

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of suicide or philosophy in house when there's no doubt it. Sometimes husbands, philosophies is pessimistic.

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Philosophy can become really ridiculous when caricatures itself, as in that point, her suicide way, he says,

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sharp, so quick, so clean and ending now is right lad that was raised. Well, that makes us laugh because it's just silly.

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And even the birds, birds are very often CLA, and you've always tell a good poet for the fact that

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a lot of it has to be winnowed away. No great poet who is consistently good. France, as I say, is a lovely life.

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He loves the soil, he loves the seasons, he loves Harvard and sowing time. And he's an integrated hills and agriculture. He was a real farmer for many years,

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made his living at rivals in New Hampshire and in England. And you feel a sense, our kinship is a natural.

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Seasons in Frost. Though these thoughts and so dissimilar Hausman, who is not a man of agriculture.

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He was a scholar. His impressions of nature are rather half-life and tame and Father, which is in a way

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a fanciful conception of nature. Because all a classic writers, that is the Greek and Roman writers like nature, rather carefully came.

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They had a good reason. Because if you went out of tame nature, you've got into the deep forest where there were

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wolves and barbarians to kill you and so on. Their fear of wild nature was a real thing. As time goes on, of course, we have came,

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nature even know wildlife, and now we look to wild nature very often for inspiration. Frost very often next to

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the mountains for exactly how Sven has the more ancient Facit, conception of nature as something beautiful. And 45 and garden life.

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What's the 24 share is a great fanciful. They're both for very fine fascicle scholars. Once years ago and I was at Trinity College, a young man was saying a frost because

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he wrote so easily and simply and spoke out. Just you and I talked to each other in his verse. Said, well now there's an example

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of the man who didn't know is classics. And there was present a delightful professor Babbitt, Who's professor gave Trinidad

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and Willis sly smile. You went out of the room and he returned with two dog ear. All records from his classes at Harvard.

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At the time, frost is there. There's the name Frost, rather weak to a AAA refers to phase. And a very good symbol of

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the x-ray series weeks that is underneath from their natural speech to things a thorough grounding in fancy law.

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Almost any Greek poet could have read him with pleasure. And also some symbolism. But there is no symbol that's a good symbol

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if it doesn't reveal its meaning to a careful reader. After two or three readings, a poetry remains obscure to you.

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After three or four ratings, it may very well be the thoughts for. And if it's a modern poet, I'm afraid that usually is for fulfills is

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a wave of obscurity going over it with presence, which I said, only true greatness and mature. They can be entirely simple.

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Greatness in mature they have little to do with age. Maybe in use. They may be lacking in old age.

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Kids died very young man didn't day. The first four, i'm, I'm going to read you. Frost illustrates the central qualities of his emotional strain.

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Frost's poetry is always a dialogue. He's always talking. He saying you do this, you do that. As a matter of fact,

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no part of any query for carbon dated go into private lives if poets, but the one who's generally addressing these foils versus

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hello beloved wife, Eleanor frost. And death almost split his life into, she died about 15 years ago, I suppose. Or is he saying to her You come to

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buck as in the case of office no, for the first one is addressed to become view and you knew it becomes the general humankind.

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And the individual is freaking give everybody and everybody becomes his companion. The object of his love.

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Perhaps the objective is detailed station is when he's talking to somebody, you see that very clearly. I'm going to start very simple one

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called a pasture. And you can see right off that he was a farmer doing simple chores. I'm going out to clean the past.

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Just spring. I alone is job to rake the leaves away. On wait to watch the water. Claire, I'm a Aisha and began long.

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You come to going out to fetch the little path is standing by the mother. It's so young toddlers

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when she likes, it was her turn. I shall be gone long. You come to see the simplicity of that. That's what we call sometimes

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the quality is the quality of people's top. We founded a new balance on both in Frost and housewares. Here's another quality they share.

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You find a combination of classic learning with the qualities. First week for Hesiod in his works and gaze, went into all law of

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the land and the kinship of man with their actual practical Shaw's 1.5 du on a farm. He's a lovely, firm, thin,

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very seasonal warfare us now call nine November, guess. I've known Mr. Frost and is poetry since 1960 in any way,

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which is quite a long time. But I'm always discovering and is worth a new PWA and I may have read it before.

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It comes out with a new meaning. That's another test to wait for. Some firms, which I read in my life 3400 times a mustache.

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Favorites. And yet was a freshmen coming up always is a new fallacy. Is mine November guest as running

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through for some of you are using is an artifact this morning as a ladder that for years and I liked really nice.

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Here it is. This is a very lyric poems and things. Nice, thorough when she's here with me. Thinks these dark days

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of autumn rains are beautiful, is days can be. She loves the bear with a tree. She was the Southern task GLA.

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Her pleasure will not left me stay. She taught and I'm feigned to list. She's glad they're gone away and she's glad. Simple worsted gray is silver

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now with clinging miss. The desolate. Cheese faded as the heavy sky. The view is, she so surely sees she thinks I have no lie for

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these and vexes me for reason. Why? Not yesterday I learn to know the love affair November days before the coming of this now.

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But it was vain to tell her. And they are better for her phrase she's talking about is really our good old friend.

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That rhetorical term, pathetic fallacy. And nature is interpreted in terms of the way a man fear and sorrow comes to froth,

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then he feels the beauty of the November weathering and so on. You find the same thing in Elizabethan speakers.

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Sweet melons says in pleasure, delicate zara of is not to 2D. Just a slight melancholy. And of course, you have it in Keats's Ode,

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HTML and fresh and in various other places. So one of the common moods of lyric poetry and is common as U2, you felt it walking out.

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Just a Josephson November there. And all is very close to us. You see, you saw the language of our everyday language of our own moon.

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This is a lovely thing. Again, is one of the early ones for flower garland. Again is speaking to the other face.

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I left you in the morning and in the morning glow. You walked away beside me to make me sad to go.

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Do you know me in the gloaming gov and dusty grave robbing. Are you dumb because you know me, not done because, you know, all for me.

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And not a question for the faded flowers guy that could take me from beside you for the ages of the day.

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They are yours. And v, the measure, there were four huge treasure. The measure of the little, while.

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We'll add them along the way. He tells the time is faster. For him. Lava has been a long, long time.

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She says is all for me. Here's another question for the fairest flowers gaze could take me

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from the side you for the ages, if a day they are yours. Be the measure their width for you to treasure.

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We measure the little while driving along. Beautifully express their cost. We find these different elements in poetry as we go along as well.

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They mentioned in that way, instead of just hypothetically, we see how much confession there is in the whole love story and those few lines.

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Now I'd like to read you a very curious poem. And this poem has very much the feeling of the old ballads. We all know. Figaro valid.

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Patrick spent some, Thomas, Ryman, Hamlin and so on. Barbara. Well, no, so bad. They never tell who's speaking.

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And they don't give you this story in so many stage that you build it up from what people says. Someone says something,

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someone else has something else. Usually are not even tell you speaking, you have to guess that Robert Frost here using that same technique.

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First he sets the stage and then you have the woman and the man talking. And apparently they have

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runaway from her husband. And all they do is live in fairly often that they misinterpret everything in terms

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of that dreaded within. And of course, the fact that this is in the land of New England, those bleak hills,

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when most of the farmers have gone. That gives it a certain tragic background. This is in blank verse, which for us so often uses

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London light from deeper in the bomb shown on a man and woman in the door. And through their leaching shadows

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on a house nearby, all dark and every glossy window. A horse's hoof pod wants to hollow flaw. In the back of the gig.

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They stood beside, moved in a little man grasp if we're the woman spoke, Shofar FO stands there and I saw it just yz plane is a white plate.

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She said it's the light on the dashboard ran along the purchases is a roadside a man's face. You must have seen it too.

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I didn't see it. And you sure? Yes, I'm sure. It was a face. Joe, I'll have to learn.

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I can't go in. I can. Neither thing like that. I'm Sarah, yours locked in Federalist. John will make no difference.

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Always have felt strange when we came home with a dark house. After so long lapses. And the key rather loudly

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into place seemed want someone to be getting out at wonders we ended at another time, right? And someone all the time don't hold my arm.

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I say sum1 pass and you speak as if this were a traveled road. You forget where we are.

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What is beyond that he be going to or coming from such an hour, night. And on foot two, what we see standing still for in the bushes.

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It's not so very light. It's only dA is more in the urine find is say, did he look like he look like anyone?

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I'll never rest tonight in this. I now give me the lands in Utah, one for land and she first-pass chairman garrett for herself.

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You're not because she said My Business Times come to face it. I'm the one where he'd never dare listen. He kicked the stone here

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and here that he's coming towards us. Joe, go in, please park. I don't hear him now. Please go in. In the first place.

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You can't make me believe it is or someone else he sends to watch. And now the time has come to have it out with him.

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Well, we know definitely where he is. Let him get off and he'll be everywhere around us looking out fees in Bush's collage

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and there is 30 foot outdoors. I can't stand it. Jell-o. Let me go. Nonsense. Do you think he'd care and

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a few mean you couldn't understand his caring or would you see hadn't had enough, Joe? I will I will. I promise you.

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We mustn't say hard things. You must die, then I'll be the one if anybody goes. But you give him

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the advantage with this life. But couldn't he do to us standing here? And if you see was really want is why he has seen all I was to see and gun.

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He feared forget to keep his whole, but advanced with her as she crossed the grass. What do you want? She cried to all.

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She stretched up tall to overlook the light that hung in both hands against test scared. Who's now on so you're wrong. He said, there is. What do you want?

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She cries then herself with startled when an answer really came. Nothing that came from well along the road. She reached a hand job or for support.

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The smell of squashing will and made her think, why are you doing around this house at night? Nothing.

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A pause there seemed no more say than the voice again. You seem afraid. I saw, by the way,

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with depth the horse, I'll just come forward in the land and live in left, you say? Yes, do Jell-O go back?

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She stood her ground against the noisy steps that came on. That how about a rough too little. You see?

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The voice says, Oh, she loved him though. You don't see I have a child here with the hand a rubber wouldn't have his family with him.

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Perhaps a child during this time of night. Walking. Every child should have the memory, or at least one long after bedtime walk.

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Some synergy, think you try to find some way or the highway as it happens with staffing for the fourth knife down and deans.

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But if that's all, Joel, you realize you won't think anything. You understand, you understand, we have to be very careful.

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This is a very, very lonely place. Zhuo. She spoke, she couldn't. Ten is swinging land

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in length into the ground. It touched, it, struck it, and went out. Cc field have all left-handed merely because the father's taking is

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filled by a whopping at night. Well, if you're looking for symbols, you see how the blackness comes in and goes out.

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There's no harm in looking for symbols. They're all there. On the other hand, you look for them all the time unless you failed,

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you got the full suite for the phone. That's an exciting field, has suspense. In a very dramatic situation. And a good many of the firms in

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North of Boston are those people who have become lonely and discontent in the lands. And once Robert Frost said you,

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Amy Lowell, Amy Lowell had a country face in Dublin, New Hampshire. He said to me, Hey, you sell your country face in Dublin,

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New Hampshire via you live in New Hampshire. Said Robert, you also know you wrote enough Boston. We want to leave for the house

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the last two or three more here I'd like to I'd like to read you one more desolate, one of the software,

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Amy Lowell thinking album safe. Speaking of the mood of North Boston. The reason I won't read this, because it's one of

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the first poems I ever heard Robert Frost many years ago. And I asked him for coffee or it's just written in.

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For the census taker. Costs that New England countrysides change degree or even in the past 30 or 40 years.

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I came an area and one blowing evening to a slab will that paper covered House of one room in one window and wonder,

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the only dwelling in a ways cut over a 100 square miles rounded in the mountains. And that not dwelt in now by men or women.

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Never had been dwelled in Novi women. So what is this? I make his sorrow. I came is census taker to

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the waist to count the FIFO and found none. None and a 100 miles none in the house where I came last with somehow, but not much. After hours overlooking from the 5th,

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emptiness flayed to the various stone. I found no people dead. Show themselves. None, not in hiding from the outward.

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The time is awesome. But how anyone could tell a time of year when every tree that could have could've dropped relief was down

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itself and nothing but the stump of it was left. Now bringing out is rings in sugar of pitch. And every tree upstairs routing from without

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a single leaf to spend on awesome or branch to whistle. After what was spent. Perhaps the wind.

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The more without the help of breathing trees. Said something at the time of year our day, the way swung a door forever off the latch as if

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rude men passed in and slammed shut, each one behind him. For the next one, the open for himself. I counted nine.

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I had no right to count. But this is dreamy unofficial counting. Before I made the 10th across the threshold, where is my Cephei?

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Where was anyons? No lamp was lit. Nothing was on the table. The stove was coal.

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Stove was off the chimney down by one side where lack to lead. The people that had love. They pass the door where people to

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the air but not the eye. They went around the table with their elbows. They want to sleeping in the shelves. If done. I saw no men

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there and no bones of men there. I armed myself against sex bones is might be with a pitch black and start with an ax handle.

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I picked up off the straw dust covered floor. Now bones, the ill fitted window rattles, the dough was still because I held Shift while I

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thought what to do That could be done about the house, about the FIFO not there. This house in one-year fallen to decay.

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Fill me with no less than the houses phone to ruin. In 10 thousand years where Asia wedges Africa from Europe.

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Nothing was left to do that. I could see, unless you find that there was no one there and declare to

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the crypts too far for echo, the places desert and that Gou, so sin silence. If in this he is a green,

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break silence now be forever silent. Let him say why was it should not be declared. The melon filet of having to

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count souls where they grow fewer and fewer every year is extreme. When they shrink to none at all. It must be, I want life to go on living.

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Now, I'll read one litre move. I think north of Boston is the surface. This first. More about the backcountry, New England.

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Which bit by bit was desert. Well enough, people move into those lands again, I don't know. In Western Connecticut and Massachusetts,

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and New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, when farming became no longer profitable or even possible. Here's a lyric which I've always liked,

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which you know very well. For the sound of trees. I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear forever

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the noise of these more than another noise. So first dwelling place. We shuffle them for the day. So we lose all measure of pace and

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fixity and our jars and acquire a listening. They are, That's the talks are going. That never gets away. And the tops no less.

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Knowing as it grows wild, wiser and older. That now means this day. My feet targets the floor and VI head sways to my shoulder.

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Sometimes when I watch trees sway from the window or the door. I shall set forth for somewhere. I shall make your breakfast choice someday.

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When they aren't advice. I'm tossing so as to scare the white clouds over them on. I shall have less to say,

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but I should be gone. That's a lovely one, of course, that's filled with implications to the coming and going of

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the season than the eventual going through death fills curious. The reason I made a mistake in reading areas refers to

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other forums or cramming into my head. I say all these things are linked together. And the more you read, the more you'll feel

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that kinship with other forests and other times a fence for him about a man who wants to go to capture some old world.

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Now I dreamed through several stanzas going to cafes of each stanza. Ends. He has never been to carcass. On the last stanza,

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he dies, and he never went to Cafe sun. But remind me of that. When I misread there was there that the talks are going but never gets away.

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I was like before Fellow in defense for envoys wanted to go to character sun. And then I was reminded

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to a refined by Walter dilemma. All SAN, SAN is telling he's an older man to step away and he's telling her once

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he saw a mermaid, he tells it in beautiful talk. I wish I could remember dilemmas, phrasing. And oh, there's one wonderful adjectives.

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They're all in something. They saw this mermaid he kept hearing have with sand where he thought he'd

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better stay where it was in the poem ends. But if tonight, I heard her calling Sam, maybe morning would find ME gone forever. With another variation on

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the same thought about those who stay away from those who go to imagine, go down and so on. The sound or things like

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I'll read that poem again. I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear forever? The noise is these more than another noise?

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So close to our dwelling place. We shuffled the end of the day. We lose our measure of Tais on fixity and our jaws and

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acquire or listening to talks are going but never gets away from the tops. No less for knowing. As it grows wiser and older.

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Now it needs to stay. My feet targets the floor. And Manhattan raised my shoulder. Sometimes an eyewash trace

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through the window or the door. I shall set forth for somewhere. I shall make the reckless choice someday when they're

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involved and tossing so as to scare the wife with them on. I shall have less to say for i. So we gone every

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time denies which we haven't actually read you. West running brought before him in the volume of that title.

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That's it. Very beautiful foil in a very symbolic for MBA sense. But it is an exquisite expression of Frost's faith in life.

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And even I'm inclined to believe in immortality. Frost is very reticent about is personal philosophy.

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And for the almost 40 years I've known him. I've never gone out of him. A definite statement are honest belief. But all through his poems there are

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hints and thought is always the love of life. Oh is this sense, this is a preface in the universe. Something have faith in.

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And I think in West Running Brook to more than a sense for himself and his memories and his beloved day to go

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on against the flow of time. Turning back to the sauce, you'll see that when you read the poem. If you haven't read it already.

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Now we're turning to Hausman. First. I'm glad it says still with us at the age of 81, husband died about ten years ago.

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He did not commit suicide. Not even the natural outcome of this philosophy. It's not always just to judge

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a guy is expressed philosophies. Robinson Jefferson is always complaining about life and he tells us this theory,

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we were born at all. I'm live shouldn't be. So once I've set well with the Jefferson, I don't think that's any way for

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the father for children to talk. If you are so against life. Why did you have four children? The URL for he will answer that one.

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And that is probably not fair to pin a poet philosophy on him and make him explaining, well. Husband as a man

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is very different from frost. Frost is a social and to an extent, he loves conversation, sit up all night and thaw.

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In fact, you can wear out FIFO much younger than himself. Sitting up and talking. Houseman was a complete rate.

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He was a recluse, edible. A says in one of her letters, she was told she had seen Haussmann feels invisible.

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Invisible when he taught Latin. Cambridge University, whose last name was John, I've never quite

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sure these English distinctions. And he was very Greek Latin scholar, which he, a name and reputation which he

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build up against the fact that he did not pass his land and with distinction in the university. And so it seemed absolutely is

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making up for that in your life career. Van Eyck himself or another, they are standing authorities in Greek and Latin.

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In the Western world. In the world. I don't see why we should as Western world. Greek and Latin scholars in China. Now, just is Frost has

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a disarming simplicity and you must, you must read. You can read him on the surface if you want. Get great pleasure.

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New ordinary objects and move to voice medium a little bit deeper. Dig a little links reading. So Hausmann has a deceptive simplicity.

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He says, as I say, many of the opposite thing for stars. That like frosty is based on the classics. And also like frost.

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Here is a combination of classicist and folk poetry. Because the forms he uses very apt to be the simple ballad stanza,

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sappho, a tree and a very singable is a superb lyric poet. He makes lovely pictures, lovely sounds. Nearly always of course,

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tinge of melon flake, usually that beautiful Mel and pray that I spoke of phospho curve in November 9th.

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And this alias reasons love so much. I think we all like attached to that general email and phase Elizabethan call it.

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But once in awhile frost and goes over. Frosted, husband goes over the bounds and we become a little irritated. And also there's this factor.

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You can't read too many if Haussmann's one sitting because the mood becomes a little tumor, same them to find.

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We wish I made all these, use a maidens. Doomed to death. What old man at least to repair or an old woman and nobody.

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And how soon over 920 as far as I can save. And although I hardly approved such a population, I think needs a few decades more here.

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And then I'm going to read the same as loveliest trees because that's terrific. Lyric corresponds with simplicity.

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To France. Pasture spring, which I read first. And this too you see, is addressed to the reader.

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Not quite surface as frosts and you come to loveliest of trees, the Cherry. Now, he's hung with blue along the bow and stands about the woodland ride,

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wearing white for Easter tide. Now of 93 score years and 1020 will not come again on tape from seven-day springs a straw.

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It only leaves me 50 more. And since to look at things in blue, 50 springs are little room about the Woodlands.

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I will go to see the cherry farm with snow. This one I reading very question number 12. This stuff she'll add that I'm reading from ascii files and 1914.

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So I must again about the age of men in this audience. This is number 12. When I watched the living meat and the moving tangent,

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far warm and breathing through the street where I largely a little while. If the gates of hate in last, in house, if flesh or strong,

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let me mine the house. Dust, mite, sojourn shall belong in the nation that is not. Nothing stands, stood before.

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Their revenge is I forgot. And the haka face no more. Lovers. Line 22, a full night's sleep. The size. And the bridegroom all

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night through never turns him to his bride's. Beautiful. Because that has this tragic spirit of the classic APA grams.

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One of them happens to Academy in epitaph. Greek anthology. Because someone is five. I am, I'll make up a name for,

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and I am the tomb of our teams. No, INRs, INR sturdiness. I never married. And I wish my mother and father had.

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Furthermore pessimistic of the Greek ever grams. Well, how spin echoes those more pessimistic epitaphs.

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Often, because they're very beautiful and D, They are persuasive beauty that one has a little humor to it. And so his house when I was here,

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when I was 19 and 20 are very wise man, say crowns and pounds and guineas, but not your heart away. Give pills away and rubies.

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But keep your fancy free. For I was 120. No use to talk to me. When I was 120, I heard him say again,

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the heart out of the bosom was never given in vain. He's paid with size a plant a. And so for endless row.

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And I am 2020 and out is true, is true. The Grimm sort of humor as this one, I will read another request number now and winner of the woods in trouble,

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that is one of the finest house whenever red arrows, and I don't think there's anything here

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could be improved. Ccle. Again, you have the thought back to the path. And when arcades the words in trouble, as far as fleece the wreck and he's Gail,

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it flies the saplings double and thicken sevens. Now the leaves will blow like this through holes and the hanger.

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When you're calm, the city Stewart is the old wind in the old anger. But then it threshed another word. Then was before my time.

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The relevant at yonder hearing here withstand the blood worms in English Yemen. They thought that they were there. They're like the wind through

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words in Riot through him. The Gale of life, blue high. The tree is, man is never quiet. Then with the Romans.

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Now design, the Gale flies, the saplings double. It blows so hard, will soon be gone.

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Today. The Roman and his trouble or anxious under your account. Because again, one of the most pessimistic week

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saying whom God's love. And you hear that echoed in one of husbands poems about love, love, fair? Again, you see how he takes a classic scene.

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And again, as Elizabeth said, he English's it. He makes it completely English efficient in an English countryside

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with English characters. There's a very fine metaphor here. Frost says that all of our metaphor as well, the degree of the labs

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in there are hundreds to learn though come in for the fare is men from the bond and the Forge in the male and the photos,

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the labs for the girls and the labs silica there. And there with the rest of the labs, you will never be 0.

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This chap's from the town in the field and the tail and the car. And many to count, or the Stallworth and

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many the brain and many the handsome face and the hands. And few they will carry their lungs or their truth to the grave.

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I wish one could know them. I wish they were tokens to tell the fortunate fellows this. Now you can never this

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N. And then one foot talk with them friendly in which them farewell and watch them run the way that they will not return.

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But now you may stare as you live and there's nothing to scan. And brushing your elbow and guests staff and not to be told.

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They carry back, right to the kina, the mint age of man, the labs, you'll die in their glory. And never V0.

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So wonderful metaphor in that last stanza. Now you may stairs you life and there's nothing to scan. And brushing your elbow and

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guest S and not to be TO. They carry that right to the corner. The image of man. The labs are Zion,

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Gloria, and never will. I think there are several more I'd like to read here at night time is running out. And I know some of you have

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engagement cell surface a. And I'm going to read you a lighter one to conclude. I hope I've maybe not.

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Oh, well, I didn't. Never mind. This is entire life and it has some very bad advice in which we all need once in a while.

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Thanks, no mall add La Jolla. Why should men make haste to die? Empty heads in China talking, make the rough road easy walking.

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And the feather paid. If Sally, there's the fallen sky, Otis, jesting, dancing, drinking, spend spins the heavy wells around.

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If young hearts were not so further. Oh, there will be young forever. Think Novo to zone may thinking plays lads underground.

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Next reading in this series and the concluding reading for this season will be in the brown Hall lounge. On the night of April 18th.

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Will all be welcome. However, if you all think that we owe yeah.