HOUSE FEAR
by: Robert Frost (1874-1963)
 LWAYS--I
tell you this they learned--
- Always at night when they returned
- To the lonely house from far away
- To lamps unlighted and fire gone gray,
- They learned to rattle the lock and key
- To give whatever might chance to be
- Warning and time to be off in flight:
- And preferring the out- to the in-door night,
- They learned to leave the house-door wide
- Until they had lit the lamp inside.
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"House Fear" is reprinted
from Mountain Interval. Robert Frost. New York: Henry
Holt, 1921. |
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