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Frost, Robert - Oh, should a child be left unwarned
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005936
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Robert Frost – from The Poetry of Robert Frost
Oh, should a child be left unwarned
That any song in which he mourned
Would be as if he prophesied?
It were unworthy of the tongue
To let the half of life alone
And play the good without the ill.
And yet 'twould seem that what is sung
In happy sadness by the young,
Fate has no choice but to fulfill.