‘Through deep impartial woods’
“What is it for, now that dividing neither
Farm from farm nor field from field it runs
Through deep impartial woods, and is transgressed
By boughs of pine or beech from either side?”
— From “A Wall in the Woods: Cummington,’’ by American poet Richard Wilbur (1921-2017)
'Joy's trick'
“Joy’s trick is to supply
Dry lips with what can cool and slake,
Leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache
Nothing can satisfy.’’
— From “Hamlen Brook,’’ by Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), famed American poet who spent most of his life in New England. Hamlen Brook runs through the Wilbur property in the western Massachusetts “Hill Town” of Cummington.