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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.

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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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Woods
Summer
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Nature
Pent
Darken
Buds
Bud

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