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But if it had to perish twice…

Dan Crawford | December 10, 2010 11:19 am

Fire and Ice

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.

Robert Frost

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Ice

(hat tip francis snoot in comments at NC)

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8 Comments
  • save_the_rustbelt says:
    December 10, 2010 at 12:12 pm

    Was this an attempt to cheer us up?

  • bob mcmanus says:
    December 10, 2010 at 12:23 pm

    I love it. Thank you.

  • Rdan says:
    December 10, 2010 at 1:07 pm

    I am an optimist…always looking for giving the second chance.

  • Rdan says:
    December 10, 2010 at 1:08 pm

    I am an optimist…always looking for giving the second chance.

  • Nancy Ortiz says:
    December 10, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    This is the only one of his poems I like. Thnx. NancyO

  • ilsm says:
    December 10, 2010 at 2:27 pm

    “And I, I took the road less traveled
    and that has all the difference made”

    Robert Frost, The Road Less traveled

  • coberly says:
    December 10, 2010 at 5:53 pm

    ilsm

    subject to embarassing disclosures by MG i will bet that Frost said “that has made all the difference”

    Frost would never “poetically invert” syntax.

  • save_the_rustbelt says:
    December 10, 2010 at 11:12 pm

    I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

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