{"id":287,"date":"2017-03-01T20:27:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T01:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2017-03-01T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T01:27:41","slug":"appropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/287","title":{"rendered":"Appropriate…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mending Wall<\/h1>\n
by Robert Frost<\/span><\/div>\n
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Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
\nThat sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
\nAnd spills the upper boulders in the sun;
\nAnd makes gaps even two can pass abreast.<\/p>\n

The work of hunters is another thing:
\nI have come after them and made repair
\nWhere they have left not one stone on a stone,
\nBut they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
\nTo please the yelping dogs.
\nThe gaps I mean,
\nNo one has seen them made or heard them made,
\nBut at spring mending-time we find them there.<\/p>\n

I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
\nAnd on a day we meet to walk the line
\nAnd set the wall between us once again.<\/p>\n

We keep the wall between us as we go.<\/p>\n

To each the boulders that have fallen to each.<\/p>\n

And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
\nWe have to use a spell to make them balance:
\n“Stay where you are until our backs are turned!”
\nWe wear our fingers rough with handling them.<\/p>\n

Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
\nOne on a side.
\nIt comes to little more:
\nThere where it is we do not need the wall:
\nHe is all pine and I am apple orchard.<\/p>\n

My apple trees will never get across
\nAnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.<\/p>\n

He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.
\n”
\nSpring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
\nIf I could put a notion in his head:
\n“Why do they make good neighbors?\u00a0 Isn’t it
\nWhere there are cows?\u00a0 But here there are no cows.<\/p>\n

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
\nWhat I was walling in or walling out,
\nAnd to whom I was like to give offense.<\/p>\n

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
\nThat wants it down.
\n”\u00a0 I could say “Elves” to him,
\nBut it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
\nHe said it for himself.
\nI see him there
\nBringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
\nIn each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.<\/p>\n

He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
\nNot of woods only and the shade of trees.<\/p>\n

He will not go behind his father’s saying,
\nAnd he likes having thought of it so well
\nHe says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.
\n<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mending Wall by Robert Frost 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. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not … Continue reading Appropriate…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literaturepoetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-4D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":521,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/521","url_meta":{"origin":287,"position":0},"title":"Mending Wall","author":"Les","date":"March 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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