| Carl in Tampa |
06-18-2014 01:09 PM |
Maintain the fences.
Quote:
Originally Posted by bkcunningham1
(Post 894772)
...and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
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.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
As the poet Robert Frost wrote, "Good fences make good neighbors."
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Two points:
1. In the case described in the poem, Frost questioned the need for the fence since there was no great danger of the neighbors' intrusion on each other's land, (neither had cows) but both he and the neighbor were cooperatively participating in rebuilding the breaches in the wall anyway.
2. In our case there is an issue of intrusion onto our land, not by cows but by golf carts which have no right to be here.
I am continually astounded by the sense of entitlement to intrude on our paths by people who have absolutely no right to do so.
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