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BOY'S WILL
BY ROBERT FROST AUTHOR OF "NORTH OF BOSTON" NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1915 TO E. M. F. CONTENTS PART I The
youth is persuaded that .he will be rather more than less himself for
having forsworn the world.
He
is happy in society of his
choosing.
He
is in love with being
misunderstood.
He
is in doubt whether to admit
real trouble to a place
beside the hearth with love.
He
courts the autumnal mood.
There
is no oversight of human
affairs.
He
is afraid of his own isolation.
Out
of the winter things he
fashions a story of
modern love.
TO THE THAWING WIND He calls on change through the violence of the elements. A PRAYER IN SPRING He discovers that the greatness of love lies not in forward-looking thoughts; FLOWER-GATHERING nor yet in any spur it may be to ambition. ROSE POGONIAS He is no dissenter from the ritualism of nature; ASKING FOR ROSES nor from the ritualism of youth which is make-believe. WAITING—AFIELD AT DUSK He arrives at the turn of the year. IN A VALE Out of old longings he fashions a story. A DREAM PANG He is shown by a dream how really well it is with him. IN NEGLECT He is scornful of folk his scorn cannot reach THE VANTAGE POINT And again scornful, but there is no one hurt MOWING He takes up life simply with the small tasks GOING FOR WATER PART II REVELATION He resolves to become intelligible, at. least to himself, since there is no help else ; THE TRIAL BY EXISTENCE and to know definitely what he thinks about the soul; IN EQUAL SACRIFICE about love; THE TUFT OF FLOWERS about fellowship; SPOILS OF THE DEAD about death; PAN WITH US about art (his own); about
science.
It
is time to make an end of
speaking.
It
is the autumnal mood with a
difference.
He
sees
days slipping from him that were the best for what they were.
There
are things that can never be the same
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