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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.

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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
Window
Fields
Close
Silence
Hush
Tree
Silently
Must
Toss
Windows
Trees

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