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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.

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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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