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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:
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>> 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.
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>
>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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