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January 19, 2006
Miles to Go
Poetry by N.M. Bodecker ("When All the World Is Full of Snow") and Robert Frost ("Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening") put to music by William S. Wang:
Download file - Miles to Go.mp3
Lyrics:
When All the World is Full of Snow,
I never know just where to go.
I do not want to make a track,
Not even to the shed and back.
I only want to watch and wait,
While snow moths settle on the gate,
And swarming frost flakes fill the trees,
with billions of albino bees.
I only want myself to be
as silent as a winter tree,
To hear the swirling stillness grow,
When all the world is full of snow.
(N.M. Bodecker)
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.
He gives his harness bells a shake
As if to ask, "Is there some mistake?"
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.
(Robert Frost)
Posted by will at January 19, 2006 03:31 AM