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 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 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.