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I didn't make you know how glad I was	A
To have you come and camp here on our land	B
I promised myself to get down some day	C
And see the way you lived but I don't know	D
With a houseful of hungry men to feed	E
I guess you'd find It seems to me	F
I can't express my feelings any more	G
Than I can raise my voice or want to lift	H
My hand oh I can lift it when I have to	I
Did ever you feel so I hope you never	J
It's got so I don't even know for sure	K
Whether I am glad sorry or anything	L
There's nothing but a voice like left inside	M
That seems to tell me how I ought to feel	N
And would feel if I wasn't all gone wrong	O
You take the lake I look and look at it	P
I see it's a fair pretty sheet of water	J
I stand and make myself repeat out loud	Q
The advantages it has so long and narrow	D
Like a deep piece of some old running river	J
Cut short off at both ends It lies five miles	R
Straight away through the mountain notch	S
From the sink window where I wash the plates	T
And all our storms come up toward the house	U
Drawing the slow waves whiter and whiter and whiter	J
It took my mind off doughnuts and soda biscuit	V
To step outdoors and take the water dazzle	W
A sunny morning or take the rising wind	X
About my face and body and through my wrapper	J
When a storm threatened from the Dragon's Den	Y
And a cold chill shivered across the lake	Z
I see it's a fair pretty sheet of water	J
Our Willoughby How did you hear of it	P
I expect though everyone's heard of it	P
In a book about ferns Listen to that	A2
You let things more like feathers regulate	B2
Your going and coming And you like it here	C2
I can see how you might But I don't know	D
It would be different if more people came	D2
For then there would be business As it is	E2
The cottages Len built sometimes we rent them	F2
Sometimes we don't We've a good piece of shore	G
That ought to be worth something and may yet	G2
But I don't count on it as much as Len	Y
He looks on the bright side of everything	L
Including me He thinks I'll be all right	H2
With doctoring But it's not medicine	I2
Lowe is the only doctor's dared to say so	D
It's rest I want there I have said it out	J2
From cooking meals for hungry hired men	Y
And washing dishes after them from doing	L
Things over and over that just won't stay done	I2
By good rights I ought not to have so much	K2
Put on me but there seems no other way	C
Len says one steady pull more ought to do it	P
He says the best way out is always through	I
And I agree to that or in so far	L2
As that I can see no way out but through	I
Leastways for me and then they'll be convinced	M2
It's not that Len don't want the best for me	F
It was his plan our moving over in	N2
Beside the lake from where that day I showed you	I
We used to live ten miles from anywhere	O2
We didn't change without some sacrifice	P2
But Len went at it to make up the loss	Q2
His work's a man's of course from sun to sun	I2
But he works when he works as hard as I do	I
Though there's small profit in comparisons	R2
Women and men will make them all the same	D2
But work ain't all Len undertakes too much	K2
He's into everything in town This year	S2
It's highways and he's got too many men	Y
Around him to look after that make waste	T2
They take advantage of him shamefully	W
And proud too of themselves for doing so	D
We have four here to board great good for nothings	U2
Sprawling about the kitchen with their talk	V2
While I fry their bacon Much they care	O2
No more put out in what they do or say	C
Than if I wasn't in the room at all	W
Coming and going all the time they are	L2
I don't learn what their names are let alone	W2
Their characters or whether they are safe	X2
To have inside the house with doors unlocked	Y2
I'm not afraid of them though if they're not	Z2
Afraid of me There's two can play at that	A2
I have my fancies it runs in the family	W
My father's brother wasn't right They kept him	A3
Locked up for years back there at the old farm	B3
I've been away once yes I've been away	C
The State Asylum I was prejudiced	C3
I wouldn't have sent anyone of mine there	O2
You know the old idea the only asylum	D3
Was the poorhouse and those who could afford	E3
Rather than send their folks to such a place	F3
Kept them at home and it does seem more human	I2
But it's not so the place is the asylum	D3
There they have every means proper to do with	G3
And you aren't darkening other people's lives	H3
Worse than no good to them and they no good	I3
To you in your condition you can't know	D
Affection or the want of it in that state	B2
I've heard too much of the old fashioned way	C
My father's brother he went mad quite young	J3
Some thought he had been bitten by a dog	K3
Because his violence took on the form	L3
Of carrying his pillow in his teeth	M3
But it's more likely he was crossed in love	N3
Or so the story goes It was some girl	W
Anyway all he talked about was love	N3
They soon saw he would do someone a mischief	O3
If he wa'n't kept strict watch of and it ended	P3
In father's building him a sort of cage	Q3
Or room within a room of hickory poles	R3
Like stanchions in the barn from floor to ceiling	L
A narrow passage all the way around	S3
Anything they put in for furniture	J
He'd tear to pieces even a bed to lie on	T3
So they made the place comfortable with straw	U3
Like a beast's stall to ease their consciences	E2
Of course they had to feed him without dishes	V3
They tried to keep him clothed but he paraded	W3
With his clothes on his arm all of his clothes	X3
Cruel it sounds I 'spose they did the best	Y3
They knew And just when he was at the height	H2
Father and mother married and mother came	D2
A bride to help take care of such a creature	J
And accommodate her young life to his	E2
That was what marrying father meant to her	J
She had to lie and hear love things made dreadful	W
By his shouts in the night He'd shout and shout	J2
Until the strength was shouted out of him	A3
And his voice died down slowly from exhaustion	I2
He'd pull his bars apart like bow and bow string	L
And let them go and make them twang until	W
His hands had worn them smooth as any ox bow	Z3
And then he'd crow as if he thought that child's play	C
The only fun he had I've heard them say though	D
They found a way to put a stop to it	P
He was before my time I never saw him	A3
But the pen stayed exactly as it was	A
There in the upper chamber in the ell	W
A sort of catch all full of attic clutter	J
I often think of the smooth hickory bars	A4
It got so I would say you know half fooling	L
It's time I took my turn upstairs in jail	W
Just as you will till it becomes a habit	V
No wonder I was glad to get away	C
Mind you I waited till Len said the word	B4
I didn't want the blame if things went wrong	O
I was glad though no end when we moved out	J2
And I looked to be happy and I was	A
As I said for a while but I don't know	D
Somehow the change wore out like a prescription	I2
And there's more to it than just window views	C4
And living by a lake I'm past such help	D4
Unless Len took the notion which he won't	E4
And I won't ask him it's not sure enough	O3
I 'spose I've got to go the road I'm going	L
Other folks have to and why shouldn't I	F4
I almost think if I could do like you	I
Drop everything and live out on the ground	S3
But it might be come night I shouldn't like it	P
Or a long rain I should soon get enough	O3
And be glad of a good roof overhead	G4
I've lain awake thinking of you I'll warrant	H4
More than you have yourself some of these nights	I4
The wonder was the tents weren't snatched away	C
From over you as you lay in your beds	J4
I haven't courage for a risk like that	A2
Bless you of course you're keeping me from work	K4
But the thing of it is I need to be kept	L4
There's work enough to do there's always that	A2
But behind's behind The worst that you can do	I
Is set me back a little more behind	X
I sha'n't catch up in this world anyway	C
I'd rather you'd not go unless you must	C3

Robert Lee Frost

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