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

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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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Wished
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.
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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
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