Robert Frost

In addition to showing off my cute family, I also wanted this blog to be a place to talk about the books I read and the things that move me. The problem is that Diana has dubbed most of my ideas as either "boring" "radical" or "inappropriate" for our blogger audience. So instead of creating a new blog under a radical pseudonym, I will just post the least offensive, and most uplifting, items of general interest that cross my path.

Today's installment is poem by Robert Frost; and if it tickles your fancy, for further reading I would suggest Crossing to Safety by Stegner.

To Time it never seems that he is brave
To set himself against the peaks of snow
To lay them level with the running wave,
Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,
But only grave, contemplative and grave.

What now is inland shall be ocean isle,
Then eddies playing round a sunken reef
Like the curl at the corner of a smile;
And I could share Time's lack of joy or grief
At such a planetary change of style.

I could give all to Time except - except
What I myself have held. But why declare
The things forbidden that while the Customs slept
I have crossed to Safety with? For I am There,
And what I would not part with I have kept.