Fire and Ice

by Robert Frost

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.

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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.








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Transcribed and formatted for Internet reading, with addition of line numbers and edits to footnotes, from the 1923 (Henry Holt and Company) hardcover edition of New Hampshire by Robert Frost.