Stopping By Boats On a Blowy Evening
STOPPING BY BOATS ON A BLOWY EVENING
Whose boat this is I think I know
But still I want to sail it so
He will not see me jumping in
To take it out there for a row
The mountains think the theft’s a sin
The hills watch me with eerie grin
As I make circles in the moonlight -
Splash and dip, pull out , push in
The water here is clear and bright
It holds the promise of the night
The prow leaps o’er the lake-glass vast
As now I pull with all my might
The boat is lovely, small and fast
With raking oars and folded mast -
The promise which it makes will last
Long after waves and wake are past
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Two favorite poets are saluted in this parody. Robert Frost is the author of STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING, and its rubaiyat form and broad story are mimicked here. William Wordsworth was the inspiration behind the STOLEN BOAT exerpt from the PRELUDE, and the ideas of the boat story are also woven in to the rubaiyat.
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