Sunday, October 16, 2022
The Times
Excerpts from Robert Frost, "Build Soil—A Political Pastoral," in his Complete Poems (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964), pp. 421-430:
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I may be wrong, but, Tityrus, to me
The times seem revolutionary bad.
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It's hard to tell which is the worse abhorrence
Whether it's persons pied or nations pied.
[....]
Let those possess the land and only those,
Who love it with a love so strong and stupid
That they may be abused and taken advantage of
And made fun of by business, law, and art,
They still hang on.
[....]
I bid you to a one-man revolution—
The only revolution that is coming.
[....]
Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any.
Join the United States and join the family—
But not much in between unless a college.
