Happy 4th of July!
Written by Dawn on July 4, 2008 – 12:00 am -
The Gift Outright
The land was ours before we were the land’s.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people. She was ours
In Massachusetts, in Virginia,
But we were England’s, still colonials,
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found out that it was ourselves
We were withholding from our land of living,
And forthwith found salvation in surrender.
Such as we were we gave ourselves outright
(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)
To the land vaguely realizing westward,
But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,
Such as she was, such as she would become.
~Robert Frost
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July 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
That is beautiful. I hadn’t read it before. Thanks for sharing it! It was the same thought that I shared today… but in different and much nicer language.