“To warm the frozen swamp as best it could
With the slow smokeless burning of decay.”

—  Robert Frost

&quot; The Wood-Pile http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wood-pile-the/&quot; <br class="br">1910s

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American poet 1874–1963

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