streams † no speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater : you can climb 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 standing still off any still or moving thing 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 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 standing still : that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar ~ † adapted from robert frost, "master speed" the yale review : 1jan1936 https://yalereview.org/article/robert-frost-master-speed cf :: a further range : henry holt & co : 1936 awarded the pulitzer prize for poetry : 1937 sound design by rjh and suno v6 illustration by rjh and chat-gpt 6 astra (light) nb : written in 1934 for his daughter irma's wedding, the final line is inscribed on the shared gravestone of robert frost and his wife elinor : old first congregational church : old bennington, vermont ... 🙏
