Merry Meet

Between the woods and frozen lake
All forsake what all should know
Of why they’re there
And where they go

Between the sky and the fallen snow
In hues of blue and shades of dust
The air’s adrift
With fairy imps and wanton lust

Between the dark and the break of day
Magic grasps morality’s reigns
Sexual arousal
Surging through their veins

Between the twigs and beds of leaves
Safe within the law of three
Ancient rituals now fulfilled
All is well … so blessed be

Line – Between the woods and frozen lake   

Taken from Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost. Reprinted with the permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

Source: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (Library of America, 1995)