Frost : Mending Wall

Something thither is that doesnt love a environ,

That sends the frozen-ground-swell beneath it

And spills the upper boulders in the sun,

And declares gaps even two can pass abreast.

The work of hunters is some other thing:                           5

I get hold of come after them and made repair

Where they use up left not one stone on a stone,

But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,

To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,

No one has seen them made or heard them made,                  10

But at saltation mending-time we find them there.

I let my neighbor know beyond the pitcher;

And on a day we meet to walk the line

And develop the seawall between us once again.

We keep the wall between us as we go.                           15

To each the boulders that have fall to each.

And some are loaves and some so nearly balls

We have to use a spell to make them balance:

baulk where you are until our backs are turned!

We wear our fingers rough with use them.                  20

Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,

One on a side. It comes to little more:

There where it is we do not need the wall:

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

My apple trees will never get across                           25

And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.

He only says, Good fences make bang-up neighbors.

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder

If I could put a notion in his head:

Why do they make good neighbors? Isnt it         30

Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.

Before I built a wall Id ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to...

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