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.

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— Robert Frost (1874-1963) grew up in Lawrence, Mass., and graduated from Lawrence High School. The Frost Farm on Route 28 in Derry, N.H., preserved by the New Hampshire Parks and Recreation Dept., marks a time in his life when he wrote some of his most remembered poems.