“So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
“One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
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Source: "Birches" (1920)
Context: I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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