"It looks as if Some pallid thing had……" — Robert Frost

"It looks as if Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat And its eyes shut with overeagerness To see what people found so interesting In one another, and had gone to sleep Of its own stupid lack of understanding, Or broken its white neck of mushroom stuff Short off, and died against the windowpane."

— Robert Frost

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