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Old 03-26-2005, 05:46 PM
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Good Fences

Now that the concept of "Good Fences" has finally come to light on GC let's all spend a little time in reflection.

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


For a line by line breakdown you can click here,
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Old 03-27-2005, 02:47 AM
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hey thanks, tenth grade englisht guy
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Old 03-27-2005, 02:51 AM
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no seriously,

i too took the road less traveled, and indeed, it has made a world of difference. I still have promices to keep but yet I sleep.












and i'm the sun god, you're looking at the sol invictus
just like langston hughes you're looking at the soul invictus


that word should spelled with an e sol invectus



my people tell me to stop posting on random ass interweb sites


to my people i say


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gate, gate, paragate, parasomgate, bodhi, svaha

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Old 03-27-2005, 10:52 AM
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i always understood that good fences make good neighbors...just that simple.
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Old 03-27-2005, 12:26 PM
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Quote:
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i always understood that good fences make good neighbors...just that simple.
How so?
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