When I was young my teachers were the old.
I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
I suffered like a metal being cast.
I went to school to age to learn the past.
Perhaps more dead than old. Although Frost attended both Dartmouth and Harvard, he didn’t come close to receiving a degree at either. A lifetime later, Frost ended up with 44 honorary degrees from colleges around the country, joking that he was “educated by degrees” and “would rather get a degree than an education.”
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