COMPLETE

POEMS
OF
ROBERT
FROST
Photograph by Clara E. Sipprell
 COMPLETE
POEMS
OF
ROBERT
FROST

HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON

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Copyright, 1936, 1942, 1945, 1948 by Robert Frost
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Copyright renewed@ 1964 by Lesley Frost Ballantine

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Publtshed, June, 1849

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Efllhth Printmg, January, 1969
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'l'enth Printing, AugUBt, 1960
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 THE MASTER SPEED

No speed of wind or water rushmg by

But you have speed far greater You can chmb
Back up a stream of radiance to the sky,
And back through history up the stream of time.
And you were given this swiftness, not for haste
Nor chiefly that you may go where you will,
But in the rush of everything to waste,
That you may have the power of standmg still-
Off any still or moving thmg you say.
Two such as you with such a master speed
Cannot be parted nor be swept away
From one another once you are agreed
That life is only life forevermore
Together wing to wing and oar to oar.

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