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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

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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
Aching
Abode
Vanished
Strangely
Dwell
Apart
Heart

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