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Show 4- A Star in a Stone Wall 4 1 BY OR. WILLIAM E. BARTON Robert Frost In one of his recent poems moralizes on a stone which ho found In a I A mSBm J ' " i "7 SPjfl tin r,n .. i iiii not j ; ! boat with the star And not. as you might think, a flying car. "Ho dragged It through the plowed ground at a pace But faintly reminiscent of the race Of Jostling rock In Interstellar space. "It went for building-stone, and I as though Commanded in a dream forever go To right the wrong that this should have been so. "Yet ask where else it could have gone so well. I do not know I cannot slop to tell: He might l ave left Ii lying where it fell " He might have left it there: but he needed the soli. Likewise he needed the fence. The meteoric stone went from where It was worse than useless to while it served a purl QSI And yet it might have served some worthier use. I have a fine old Indian mortar which a farmer found in the Kentucky Ken-tucky mountains.. He was heating stone I ) drop In a barrel to scald hogs, and he healed this stone and dropped it Intv the water, and It brokt He could have obtained another stone by walking another yard In almost any direction, but he did not care to exert himself lo that extent So perished the finished product of a skilled artisan's toil, preserved for entu- rles and lost bceouse It meant nothing to th finder. Thus did the priceless marbles of Rome in her glory go to feed UP limc-kllns of the conquering barbarians. barba-rians. Life has in It much need of discovering, discov-ering, not only the fallen stars lhat besprinkle be-sprinkle our corn fields, but the u'.es of them after we have found them. What would you do with a star? |