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" Fragmentary Blue

Why make so much of 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,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet. "

Robert Frost


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Robert Frost quote : Fragmentary Blue<br /><br />Why make so much of fragmentary blue<br />In here and there a bird, or butterfly,<br />Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,<br />When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?<br /><br />Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--<br />Though some savants make earth include the sky;<br />And blue so far above us comes so high,<br />It only gives our wish for blue a whet.