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羅伯特‧福洛斯特 (Robert
Frost) 在約翰‧甘迺迪 (John
F. Kennedy) 的就職典禮上朗誦詩作：1961年1月20日
在熱烈掌聲停止之後，甘迺迪向大家介紹美國最偉大的詩人之一，羅伯特‧佛洛斯特，並請他走上台來。福洛斯特為這個場合寫了題為致敬 (Dedication) 的詩。他走向麥克風前，但是卻因為國會大廈屋頂上的白雪被陽光照得刺眼，所以他沒辦法唸出稿子。不過，福洛斯特很快的想了想，他引用了他自己在1942年寫的另一首詩全心的奉獻 (The
Gift Outright) ，這首詩是這樣說的：
在我們站在這片土地上前，
她已經是我們的了，
在百年前，她就已經是我們的土地，
在我們成為她的子民之前。
她已是我們的…
After the applause, Kennedy welcomed to the podium one of America's great poets, fellow New Englander Robert Frost. Frost had written a poem for the occasion called "Dedication." He approached the microphone, but blinded by the sun's glare on the snow-covered Capitol grounds, he was unable to read it. Thinking quickly, he instead recited "The Gift Outright," a poem he had written in 1942. It started:
"The land was ours before we were the land's.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people. She was ours . . ."
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