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STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING by ROBERT FROST

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First Line: WHOSE WOODS THESE ARE I THINK I KNOW
Last Line: AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP.
Subject(s): DUTY; EVENING; FORESTS; RELIGION; SNOW; SOLITUDE; WINTER; SUNSET; TWILIGHT; WOODS; THEOLOGY; LONELINESS;

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.




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