Young man, I'm not terrible edukated nor nuttin' but I AM a Vermontah, and
I believe them words should be credited to Mr. Robert Frost.  Ruth





At 6:17 PM -0800 11/12/07, Cuyler Page wrote:
>>
>> Nation-states are an odd artifice. I don't see any time soon that we will
>> not have them but I like the dream of a world without borders.
>>
>
>Walt Whitman said it best in his poem "Mending Wall".
>
>      He is all pine and I am apple-orchard.
>      My apple trees will never get across
>      And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.   25
>      He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."
>      Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
>      If I could put a notion in his head:
>      "Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
>      Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.   30
>      Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
>      What I was walling in or walling out,
>      And to whom I was like to give offence.
>      Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
-- 
Ruth Barton
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Dummerston, VT

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