Thank you, Bill. I didn't know the poem, but Bartleby has it Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK----- Original Message ----- From: "William Ball" <ballnw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:34 PMSubject: [lit-ideas] Re: Is 'All men are immortal' unscientific?/Paean To Woody
Thanks, Mike Lurking here in my dotage, but still eavesdropping occasionally. A propos Robert Frost, there's a fine poem in thee opening volume of his North of Boston where he talks of not mortality, but rather pre-existence and then of a full life--no mortality, mind you, but rather first half of Perhaps an eternal existence. I forget the name of the poem, but it's first one in his his first remarkable......... Wait!! It's "The Trial BY Existence". Not gone yet and still vertical, ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html