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Mending Wall · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Mending wall. Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
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  Speaker 1: that sends the frozen groundswell under it and spills the
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  Speaker 1: upper boulders in the sun and makes gaps even two
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  Speaker 1: can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing.
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  Speaker 1: I have come after them and made repair where they
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  Speaker 1: have left not one stone on a stone, but they
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  Speaker 1: would have the rabbit out of hiding to please the
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  Speaker 1: yelping dogs. No one has seen them made or heard
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  Speaker 1: them made, but at spring mending time, we find them there.
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  Speaker 1: I let my neighbor know beyond the hill, and on
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  Speaker 1: a day we meet to walk the line and set
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  Speaker 1: the wall between us once again. We keep the wall
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  Speaker 1: between us as we go, to each the boulders that
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  Speaker 1: have fallen to each. And some are loaves, and some
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  Speaker 1: so nearly balls, we have to use a spell to
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  Speaker 1: make them balance. Stay where you are until our backs
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  Speaker 1: are turned. We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: just another kind of outdoor game, one on a side.
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  Speaker 1: It comes to little more. There, where it is, we
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  Speaker 1: do not need the wall. He is all pine, and
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  Speaker 1: I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get
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  Speaker 1: across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
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  Speaker 1: He only says, good fences make good neighbors. Spring is
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  Speaker 1: the mischief in me, and I wonder if I could
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  Speaker 1: put a notion in his head. Why do they make
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  Speaker 1: good neighbors? Isn't it where there are cows? But here
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  Speaker 1: there are no cows. Before I built a wall, I'd
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  Speaker 1: ask to know what I was walling in or walling out,
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  Speaker 1: and to whom I was like to give offense. Something
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  Speaker 1: there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down.
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  Speaker 1: I could say elves to him, but it's not elves exactly,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd rather he said it for himself. I see
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  Speaker 1: him there, bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
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  Speaker 1: in each hand, like an old stone savage armed. He
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  Speaker 1: moves in darkness as it seems to me, not of
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  Speaker 1: woods only and the shade of trees. He will not
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  Speaker 1: go behind his father's saying, and he likes having thought
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  Speaker 1: of it so well. He says again, good fences make
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  Speaker 1: good neighbors.