An Elementary Coincidence

One morning a couple of days ago, Art and I did the Super Quiz in the Star Advertiser.  You had to identify the poem from its first line.  There are three levels of difficulty, the Freshmen Level, Graduate Level and Ph.D. Level.  In the Graduate Level was the line, "Whose woods these are I think I know."

I knew the answer instantly and yelled out, "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening". 

I'm not sure why that poem has always stayed with me.  I read it either in high school or college and could imagine Robert Frost sitting on his wagon, looking into the dark and lovely woods with snow falling all around him.

Later in the evening we watched Elementary on television about a modern day Sherlock Holmes.  At the end of the show Dr. Joan Watson gives Sherlock a  gift of a framed plaque that reads:

 The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
 But I have promises to keep,
 And miles to go before I sleep,
 And miles to go before I sleep.

 "Wow!"  I told Art.  "We began our day with the beginning line of the poem and have ended our day with the ending stanza.

"You should blog about it," said Art.

So I did.