I Dwell In A Lonely House I

Something There Is That Doesn't Love A Wall, And Wants It Down.

When A Friend Calls To Me From The Road And Slows His Horse To A Meaning Walk, I Don't Stand Still And Look Around On All The Hills I Haven't Hoed, And Shout From Where I Am, What Is It? No, Not As There Is A Time To Talk. I Thrust My Hoe In The Mellow Ground, Blade-end Up And Five Feet Tall, And Plod: I Go Up To The Stone Wall For A Friendly Visit.

Before I Built A Wall I'd Ask To Know What I Was Walling In Or Walling Out, And To Whom I Was Like To Give Offence. Something There Is That Doesn't Love A Wall, That Wants It Down.

Life Must Be Kept Up At A Great Rate In Order To Absorb Any Considerable Amount Of Learning.

Word I Was In My Life Alone, / Word I Had No One Left But God.