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Fire and Ice
Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (New York: Henry Holt, 1923), first edition, Grace Notes, p. 80 (Internet Archive page images, leaf n94); cross-checked with Project Gutenberg #58611
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Source: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (New York: Henry Holt, 1923), first edition, Grace Notes, p. 80 (Internet Archive page images, leaf n94); cross-checked with Project Gutenberg #58611 Source URL: https://archive.org/details/goog_a9xaAAAAMAAJ; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58611 Public domain basis: First published in Harper’s Magazine, December 1920; collected in New Hampshire (1923); public domain in the United States (published before 1931). Coverage: Complete: the poem as printed on page 80 of the 1923 first edition of New Hampshire (small-capital opening word set in ordinary type).
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.