Sunday, May 11, 2008

Two Tramps in Mud Time: Robert Frost

Related to the post below - Madeleine L'Engle used this in one of her books, The Arm of the Starfish:

"But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes."


I love this final stanza, even though I've never studied the entire poem in any detail. What does it mean to you?

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