• 6 - Fifty Dollars! featuring "For Once, Then, Something" by Robert Frost

  • Jun 20 2021
  • Length: 6 mins
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6 - Fifty Dollars! featuring "For Once, Then, Something" by Robert Frost

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  • Carl Burell speaks at the Derry Centennial Celebration of 1927, telling of Robert Frost’s treasure chest of poems and speaking in front of large groups of people.  Carl also reads Frost's poem, For Once, Then, Something.

    For Once, Then, Something
    By Robert Frost

    Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs
    Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
    Deeper down in the well than where the water
    Gives me back in a shining surface picture
    Me myself in the summer heaven godlike
    Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.
    Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
    I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
    Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
    Something more of the depths—and then I lost it.
    Water came to rebuke the too clear water.
    One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
    Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
    Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?
    Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.
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