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The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

Robert Frost

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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
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Shook
Change
Crow
Heart
Snow
Way
Mood
Dust
Saved
Tree
Given
Hemlock

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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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