After Church in Methuen, MA - Poet Robert Frost Farm

 

Poet Robert Frost Farm, Forest, and Meadow, Derry NH

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Glen's 7th Cousin

I love Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken."  I memorized this poem when I was young and then later when serving my mission in England as a young man.  I used this poem in the home evenings we would hold with families we were teaching.  I felt the poem fit perfectly with where these investigators were in their life's journey towards accepting the Gospel.  "I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference."

The Road Not Taken 

BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Around the home's forest and meadow are plaques of different poems of Robert Frost. He drew great inspiration for his works from this beautiful rural area.

We would have loved to see the New England Fall colors in this area just a few weeks ago!

During Sunday School class in Methuen, MA the teacher had us use the family tree relationship tool.  I had never made the connection of Mom and I being 11th cousins.