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罗伯特．福洛斯特 (Robert
Frost) 在约翰．肯尼迪 (John
F. Kennedy) 的就职典礼上朗诵诗作：1961年1月20日
在热烈掌声停止之后，肯尼迪向大家介绍美国最伟大的诗人之一，罗伯特．佛洛斯特，并请他走上台来。福洛斯特为这个场合写了题为致敬 (Dedication) 的诗。他走向麦克风前，但是却因为国会大厦屋顶上的白雪被阳光照得刺眼，所以他没办法念出稿子。不过，福洛斯特很快的想了想，他引用了他自己在1942年写的另一首诗全心的奉献 (The
Gift Outright) ，这首诗是这样说的：
在我们站在这片土地上前，
她已经是我们的了，
在百年前，她就已经是我们的土地，
在我们成为她的子民之前。
她已是我们的…
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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