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ROBERT LEE FROST: 'MENDING WALL'

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ROBERT LEE FROST: ‘MENDING WALL’                            Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,                                                 That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it.                                                 And spills the upper boulders in the sun;                                                 And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.                                     5           The work of hunters is another thing:                                                 I have come after them and made repair                                                 Where they have 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,                                     10        No one has seen them made or heard them made,                                           

WILLIAM SOUTAR 'PARABLE'

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WILLIAM SOUTAR: ‘PARABLE’                                 Two neighbors, who were rather dense,                                                 Considered that their mutual fence                                                 Were most symbolic of their peace                                                 (Which they maintained should never cease)                                     5           If each about his home and garden                                                 Set up a more substantial warden.                                                 Quickly they cleared away the fence                                                 To build a wall at great expense                                                 And soon their little plots of ground      10        Were barricaded all around:                                                 Yet still they added stone to stone,                                                 As if they would be done