For Lincoln MacVeagh
Never tell me that not one star of all
That slip from heaven at night and softly fall
Has been picked up with stones to build a wall
Frost’s editor at Henry Holt and Company, from 1916 to 1923, when he became president of the Dial Press. According to notes provided to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, for her  The Trial by Existence , MacVeigh visited Frost’s farm in Franconia, NH in 1919, where the two stayed up the night talking philosophy, “saying some of the best things we ever said.” Frost’s dedication turned out to be prophetic: MacVeagh would later become an amateur archaeologist while serving as U.S. ambassador to Greece.
A Star in a Stone-Boat