September 23-25 2005 Corvettes in Vermont
	Just North of Bennington, Vt on Rt. 7A we visited a Robert Frost (1874-1963) home in South Shaftsbury. The rear view with a large shed and part of his stone walls that frequent his poetry.
	This property features many of his poetry's subjects and associations including the stone walls, birch trees, his timbered barn and his original apple trees.
	Other than a bureau, table and some China, very little was actually on display inside. However in the room in which he wrote it, was a copy of the rough draft for his famous poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". Reading this poem in that room was a spiritual event. I was spiritually moved and later for $2 purchased some of the seeds from his own perennially pea pod vines to plant in my own garden. I did not appreciate his work when I was in school.
	"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Original text: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1923) Note: Rhyme: aaba bbcb ccdc dddd
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