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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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