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"Provide, Provide" by Robert Frost (written 1936)

The witch that came (the withered hag) To was the steps with pail and rag, Was once the beauty Abishag,

The picture pride of Hollywood. Too many fall from great and good For you to doubt the likelihood.

Die early and avoid the fate. Or if predestined to die late, Make up your mind to die in state.

Make the whole stock exchange your own! If need be occupy a throne, Where nobody can call you crone.

Some have relied on what they knew; Others on simply being true. What worked for them might work for you.

No memory of having starred Atones for later disregard, Or keeps the end from being hard.

Better to go down dignified With boughten friendship at your side Than none at all. Provide, provide!



"In no country in the world is the love of property more active and more anxious than in the United States..." (Alexis deTocqueville, __Democracy in America__, p. 793)

"... folks always move ... 'cause they want somepin better'n what they got." (John Steinbeck, __The Grapes of Wrath__, p. 128)

".... vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty." (F. Scott Fitzgerald, __The Great Gatsby__, p. 98)



Robyn's Reflection on Greed and Wealth - The Dream of America