Mending Wall
SATB & Piano - text by Robert Frost - English - Easy - Premiered
“Something there is that doesn't love a wall, that makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
No one has seen them made or heard them made, but at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line.
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
There where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across, and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.”
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder if I could put a notion in his head:
Before I built a wall I would ask to know what I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
I see him there bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down.”
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