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DEC iG 6\ MO Mending Wall Robert Frost - 1874-1963 Something there is that doesn't love a wall That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, >) And spills the upper boulders in the sun; ‘And makes gaps even two can pass abreast ‘The work of hunters is another thing Thave come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, ‘No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. Het my neighbor know beyond the hill; L fe ‘And on a day we meet to walk the line ‘ And set the wall between us once again, We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each, And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: 5 walt Jy ley 1 as ‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!" “> Nerve undrl} TD Gea We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Our heres bee we Raw wth 44+, ae | Oh, just another kind of outdoor game, = S> St7\5 lofed |keoa Game © ane ‘One on a side. It comes to little more: but Fen FT There where itis we do not need the wall: Sve JBYIS We olen need a usl) He isall pine and am apple orchard. Ie ZAlyhe5 Pine exp ( bharvenPlos My apple tees will never get across / Y dyeeS went Chak A055 We val ‘And eat the cones under his pines, Ltellhim. AAA Cad hyS Pike Gnd, SoT) lbs He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors’ Ne 54:4 “Gand (en(ed mabe Gl roipry Spring isthe mischiefin me, andtwonder Of Jf NS Make) me Wonder Sonehs If could put a notion in his head: what he Levld Would fay when Tosk ‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isntit, = why dodaey make Good ha shbis? Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Ae )e fof C5 bid & eoters) fore Before I builtawall Pdasktoknow — fefere FE by kf a ball TL weld wantin What I was walling in or walling out, hry} Tes wAlAS Paar UaAlichy oF And to whom Iwas ike to give offense. pA btemnight fad OffenCe ethad Someblne ies tint docsctoveawal, . Afere, 0S, SUMS Tope Ace snd ARs That wants it down.' I could say ‘Elves'to him, -“Ahded te Say jt ras the elves, Butits not elves exactly, and Pdrather wt SN, re Bond maint -da He said it for himself see him there 98 A&E to hime dher. Bringing a stone grasped firmly by thetop §— L- See him holdtin a Sere by He lef inelh hep, Like a In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. — (ore nen, He moves in darkness asitseemstome, AB 15 PMS day yas ieee Not of woods only and the shade of trees. /\¢t y F reo He will not go behind his father’s saying, h ae And he likes having thought of it so well ra\t f Ain yr Fr r T Me says agin, Good fences make good neighbors: he $< nary ate Wake Gocd ESOS

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