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Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.

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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
Another
Earth
Give
Incantation
May
Satellite
Might
Satellites
Right
Poet
Giving
Poetry
Wish

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