I shall set forth for somewhere
Okay, so I’ve known these lines for a while:
I shall set forth for somewhere
I shall make the reckless choice
I don’t know where I saw those lines quoted … maybe it will come to me … and I didn’t know where they were from. It turns out they’re from Robert Frost! I’ve read plenty of his poetry, mostly the super-well-known poems, but I hadn’t encountered this particular poem before, and this, it turns out, is the source of those lines. Here’s the poem:
THE SOUND OF THE TREESRobert Frost
I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?
We suffer them by the day
Till we lose all measure of pace,
And fixity in our joys,
And acquire a listening air.
They are that that talks of going
But never gets away;
And that talks no less for knowing,
As it grows wiser and older,
That now it means to stay.
My feet tug at the floor
And my head sways to my shoulder
Sometimes when I watch trees sway,
From the window or the door.
I shall set forth for somewhere,
I shall make the reckless choice
Some day when they are in voice
And tossing so as to scare
The white clouds over them on.
I shall have less to say,
But I shall be gone.
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