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The protagonist of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” pauses for a minute to take in the peace of a sylvan snowfall before continuing a journey of “miles to go before I sleep.”

Thomas serves as narrator and performs readings of an adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s story “Christmas Day in the Morning,” an excerpt from Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and Biblical passages describing the birth of Jesus.

In his poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Frost celebrates the woods that are “lovely, dark and deep.”

This year’s haul is the second to reach the public after the 20-year freeze imposed by the act; New Year’s Day 2019 had gifted us with free access to Cecil B. DeMille’s film “The Ten Commandments,” Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and the song “Yes! We Have No Bananas,” among other works published or created in 1923.

He makes his point by quoting a few lines from Frost’s most famous poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”: “Whose woods these are I think I know./ His house is in the village though; /He will not see me stopping here / To watch his woods fill up with snow” and then seamlessly shifts to lyrics from Jay-Z’s “What More Can I Say”: “God forgive me for my brash delivery/But I remember vividly/What these streets did to me….”