{"id":3336,"date":"2014-08-14T10:32:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T09:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2014-08-15T17:16:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:16:33","slug":"going-water-robert-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/going-water-robert-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"GOING FOR WATER by ROBERT FROST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/08\/22152554\/Robert-Frost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3338\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/08\/22152554\/Robert-Frost.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Frost\" width=\"272\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>Going for Water<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>By Robert Frost<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">The well was dry beside the door,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">\u00a0And so we went with pail and can<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">Across the fields behind the house<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">\u00a0To seek the brook if it still ran;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">Not loth to have excuse to go,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">\u00a0Because the autumn eve was fair<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">(Though chill) because the fields were ours,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">\u00a0And by the brook our woods were there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">We ran as if to meet the moon<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">\u00a0That slowly dawned behind the trees,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">The barren boughs without the leaves,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">\u00a0 Without the birds, without the breeze.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">But once within the wood, we paused<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;padding-left: 180px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\">\u00a0Like gnomes that hid us from the moon,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: 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