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29-12-2009
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Promises to keep

Submitter: Michael Garrett
Description: Everyone who has worked at ASTRON or JIVE knows that Dwingeloo is a special place, perhaps especially so when the Drenthe landscape is covered with a thick layer of freshly fallen snow. While walking through the woods today, the words of Robert Frost came to mind (see below). 2010 approaches rapidly, and indeed with many challenges and promises to keep.

"Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.

Copyright: ASTRON
 
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