There sandy seems the golden sky
and golden seems the sandy plain.
No habitation meets the eye
Unless in the horizon rim,
Some halfway up the limestone wall,
That spot of black is not a stain
Or shadow, but a cavern hole,
Where someone used to climb and crawl
To rest from his besetting fears.
I see the calllus on his sole,
The disappering last of him
And of his race starvation slim,
Oh, years ago- Ten Thousand Years.
- Robert Frost
Snow falling and night falling fast, oh fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeks and stubble showing last.
The woods around it have it- it is thiers.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
the loneliness includes me unawares.
And lonely as it its, that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less-
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.
They cannont scare me with thier empty spaces
Between stars-on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
to scare myself with my own desert places.
-Robert Frost
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