Robert Frost

It is anomalous (but maybe peculiarly American) that Frost should be so strongly associated with the idiom and landscape of New England, since he was born in California (west of the Mississippi River, like the

Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same

by Robert Frost (1874–1963)

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He would declare and could himself believe
That the birds there in all the garden round
From having heard the daylong voice of Eve
Had added to their own an oversound,
Her tone of meaning but without the words.
Admittedly an eloquence so soft
Could only have had an influence on birds
When call or laughter carried it aloft.
Be that as may be, she was in their song.

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