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Quotation from Early Poems: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval by Robert Frost

“The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.”

Robert Frost (spoken by The mower)

Early Poems: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, A Boy's Will, Mowing (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of Robert Frost

The sonnet's conclusion: the work of mowing needs no fairy tale to make it sweet.

Citation: "The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows." — Robert Frost, Early Poems: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, A Boy's Will, Mowing (Project Gutenberg text). (id frost-early-poems-q1)

Portrait: Robert Frost NYWTS, Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain.

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