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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

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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
Bend
Boys
Left
Right
Think
Thinking
Like
Birches
Swinging

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