The best thing that we’re put here for’s to see; The strongest thing that’s given us to see with’s A telescope. Someone in every town Seems to me owes it to the town to keep one. In Littleton it may as well be me.
Brad McLaughlin (Robert Frost, “The Star-splitter”)
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- “The Star-splitter,” New Hampshire (1923), p28; Read full poem and edition title/copyright. Complete five-line quoted speech attributed by narrator to Brad McLaughlin, not a direct autobiographical declaration by Frost. Ironic narrative: Brad finances telescope by arson, and ending questions whether
- “The Star-splitter,” New Hampshire (1923), p28
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