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FRAGMENTARY BLUE by ROBERT FROST

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First Line: WHY MAKE SO MUCH OF A FRAGMENTARY BLUE
Last Line: IF ONLY GIVES OUR WISH FOR BLUE A WHET.
Subject(s): BLUE (COLOR);
Why make so much of a fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet) --
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
If only gives our wish for blue a whet.


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