Regretting Frost

I have been fortunate in a lifetime to have heard speak in person some very famous and favorite authors, whose names are known to almost all. They include Julian Huxley, Carl Sandburg, and Linus Pauling. (So now you know, if you did not before, that I am likely older than you are.) Very first row seat for Huxley, because I could, as an early bird. Upper auditorium for Sandburg, who spoke at a graduation, and I was not graduating. Standing for Pauling in a sardine can, and it did not matter. Those were all in college days. But, I missed one in college, for whatever reason I shall never remember, and that has been my regret to this very day. He is Robert Frost. I missed his reciting a favorite poem, so rich in meaning, that, perhaps as amends, I at least want now to share it and its si…