“Hope, which lay at the bottom of the box, remained.’’ Allegorical painting by George Frederic Watts, 1886
“Do you have hope for the future?
someone asked Robert Frost, toward the end.
Yes, and even for the past, he replied,
that it will turn out to have been all right
for what it was, something we can accept,
mistakes made by the selves we had to be….’’
— From ‘‘Thanks, Robert Frost,’’ by David Ray
