Bereft
 

[CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] Where had I heard this wind before[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] Change like this to a deeper roar?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] What would it take my standing there for,[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] Holding open a restive door,[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] Looking down hill to a frothy shore?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] Summer was past and day was past.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] Somber clouds in the west were massed.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] Out in the porch's sagging floor,[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] leaves got up in a coil and hissed,[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] Blindly struck at my knee and missed.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] Something sinister in the tone[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] Told me my secret must be known:[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] Word I was in the house alone[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3][COLOR=Purple] Somehow must have gotten abroad,
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[/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=4][I][FONT=Book Antiqua][COLOR=Purple] Word I was in my life alone,[/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=Purple]
[/COLOR][FONT=Book Antiqua][COLOR=Purple] Word I had no one left but God.[/COLOR][/FONT][/I][/SIZE][B][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3]
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[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][LEFT][FONT=Palatino Linotype][SIZE=5][COLOR=Purple]Robert Frost[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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Originally Posted by Last Island

Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.

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God bless u,My lady.U ve revived -the days gone wid the wind- with this verse.It seems I can still listen to my great mentorr lecturing on BEREFT by Robert Frost.
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[B][CENTER]An Old Man’s Winter Night[/CENTER][/B]
[CENTER]ALL out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,
That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.
What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze
Was the lamp tilted near them in his hand.
What kept him from remembering what it was
That brought him to that creaking room was age.
He stood with barrels round him—at a loss.
And having scared the cellar under him
In clomping there, he scared it once again
In clomping off;—and scared the outer night,
Which has its sounds, familiar, like the roar
Of trees and crack of branches, common things,
But nothing so like beating on a box.
A light he was to no one but himself
Where now he sat, concerned with he knew what,
A quiet light, and then not even that.
He consigned to the moon, such as she was,
So late-arising, to the broken moon
As better than the sun in any case
For such a charge, his snow upon the roof,
His icicles along the wall to keep;
And slept. The log that shifted with a jolt
Once in the stove, disturbed him and he shifted,
And eased his heavy breathing, but still slept.
One aged man—one man—can’t fill a house,
A farm, a countryside, or if he can,
It’s thus he does it of a winter night.[/CENTER]