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THE FREEDOM OF THE MOON
by Robert Frost  

I've tried the new moon tilted in the air
Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster
As you might try a jewel in your hair.
I've tried it fine with little breadth of luster,
Alone, or in one ornament combining
With one first-water start almost shining.

I put it shining anywhere I please.
By walking slowly on some evening later,
I've pulled it from a crate of crooked trees,
And brought it over glossy water, greater,
And dropped it in, and seen the image wallow,
The color run, all sorts of wonder follow.

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Frost's career as a teacher extended from the spring of 1893 almost to his death in 1963. It included teaching in a one-room country school in New England and in the most complex and prestigious ivy-covered gothic-structured colleges and universities. ...Frost said, "I've taught every darn year from kindergarten to graduate school, Latin, English, mathematics, history, algebra, philosophy, and one year psychology." from Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher by Peter Stanlis, Intercollegiate Studies Institute (2007)