Hello everyone, I have seen a few post asking for the lines to the poem in the episode
"Roads Taken" so I thought that I would put it on my site. The poem was taken from
a  poem  called "Sudden Light" which is actually a song (see below) written by
Dante Gabriel  Rossetti. Refer to
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/poems/1-1870ed1doc.html#2-61
I hope you enjoy it!!

Poem as quoted from "Roads Taken"

I have been here before,

But when and how I can not tell,

I know the grass beyond the door,

The sweet keen smell,

The sighing sound,

The lights around the shore,

and you have been mine before,

How long ago I may not know,

Has this been thus before?

and shall not thus times eddying flight still,

With our lives our love restore,

In deaths despite,

and day and night,

yield one delight,

once more......

              Original Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

SUDDEN LIGHT

I have been here before,

But when or how I cannot tell:

I know the grass beyond the door,

The sweet keen smell,

The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

You have been mine before, -

How long ago I may not know:

But just when at that swallow's soar

Your neck turned so,

Some veil did fall, -l knew it all of yore.

Has this been thus before?

And shall not thus time's eddying flight

Still with our lives our love restore

In death's despite,

And day and night yield one delight once more?


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