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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.

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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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Towns
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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