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Two such as you with such a master speed
Cannot be parted nor be swept away
From one another once you are agreed
That life is only life forevermore
Together wing to wing and oar to oar.

— Robert Frost A Further Range (1936)

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Source: "The Master Speed", l. 10; the last line is Inscribed beneath his wife's name on the gravestone of Frost and his wife, Elinor
Work: A Further Range, 1936
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