Fire and Ice from the Poetry Foundation newsletter

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BY ROBERT FROST

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
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POETRobert Frost 1874–1963

POET’S REGIONU.S., New England

SUBJECTSReligion, Nature, Arts & Sciences, Humor & Satire, Philosophy, Sciences

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