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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

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
Eye
Stone
Much
Wearing
Make
Stones
Fragmentary
Bird
Hue
Blue
Presents
Flower
Sheets
Open
Butterfly
Heaven
Solid

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