Mending Wall
Robert Frost
1874 to 1963
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Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That ______ the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders ______ the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have ______ after them and made repair
Where they have left ______ one stone on a stone,
But they would have ______ rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. ______ gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made ______ heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find ______ there.
I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
______ on a day we meet to walk the line
______ set the wall between us once again.
We keep ______ wall between us as we go.
To each the ______ that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves ______ some so nearly balls
We have to use a ______ to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until ______ backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough ______ handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
______ on a side. It comes to little more:
There ______ it is we do not need the wall:
He ______ all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple ______ will never get across
And eat the cones under ______ pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences ______ good neighbours."
Spring is the mischief in me, ______ I wonder
If I could put a notion in ______ head:
"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are ______ cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to ______
What I was walling in or walling out,
And ______ whom I was like to give offence.
Something there ______ that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down." I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not ______ exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. ______ see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by ______ top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
______ moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not ______ woods only and the shade of trees.
He will ______ go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having ______ of it so well
He says again, "Good fences ______ good neighbours."