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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
Feel
Feels
Rough
Long
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Weight
Strength
Hurt
Earth
Enough

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