miles to go before I sleep
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Americans do not find themselves harmonizing much on Robert Frost's lonely, manly lines: "But I have promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep/ And miles to go before I sleep."
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During the 1960 presidential campaign, Kennedy would end his set political speech by saying: "But I have miles to go before I sleep."
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As the cheers welled around him, the once and future Prune Minister quoted from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: "I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."
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The line "And miles to go before I sleep" at first seems straightforward.
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Yes, the "woods" of contemporary history are "lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep."
From The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography by Wolf, George D.
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