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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

Robert Frost

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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
Tunes
Bird
Wakened
Half
Lunar
Littles
Inborn
Little
Noon
Sang
Halfway
Tune

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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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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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