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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

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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
Much
Stars
Men
Voice
Tell
Earth
Scars
Body
Scar
Soul
Birth
Look
Truly
Looks
Pay

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