Poem by Robert Lee Frost

A Peck of Gold

Dust always blowing about the town,
Except when sea-fog laid it down,
And I was one of the children told
Some of the blowing dust was gold.

All the dust the wind blew high
Appeared like god in the sunset sky,
But I was one of the children told
Some of the dust was really gold.

Such was life in the Golden Gate:
Gold dusted all we drank and ate,
And I was one of the children told,
’We all must eat our peck of gold.’

1. Pea Brush
2. The Pauper Witch of Grafton
3. The Star-Splitter
4. Reluctance
5. Flower-Gathering

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