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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.

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
Make
Apple
Good
Apples
Pines
Never
Trees
Cones
Neighbor
Fences
Across
Orchard
Tree
Pine
Says
Neighbors
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Fence

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