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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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