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The Need of Being Versed in Country Things

The Need of Being Versed in Country Things

The house had gone to bring again 
To the midnight sky a sunset glow. 
Now the chimney was all of the house that stood, 
Like a pistil after the petals go.
 

The barn opposed across the way, 
That would have joined the house in flame 
Had it been the will of the wind, was left 
To bear forsaken the place’s name.
 

No more it opened with all one end 
For teams that came by the stony road 
To drum on the floor with scurrying hoofs 
And brush the mow with the summer load.
 

The birds that came to it through the air 
At broken windows flew out and in, 
Their murmur more like the sigh we sigh 
From too much dwelling on what has been.
 

Yet for them the lilac renewed its leaf, 
And the aged elm, though touched with fire; 
And the dry pump flung up an awkward arm; 
And the fence post carried a strand of wire.
 

For them there was really nothing sad. 
But though they rejoiced in the nest they kept, 
One had to be versed in country things 
Not to believe the phoebes wept. 

By Robert Frost – 1874-1963

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Thatched Cottages in the Sunshine: Reminiscence of the North

Thatched Cottages in the Sunshine: Reminiscence of the North by Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Rémy: February, 1890. Current location The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Oil on canvas
50.0 x 39.0 cm.

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