<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gift Outright</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The land was ours before we were the land's.<br>She was our land more than a hundred years<br>Before we were her people. She was ours<br>In Massachusetts, in Virginia,<br>But we were England's, still colonials,<br>Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,<br>Possessed by what we now no more possessed.<br>Something we were withholding made us weak<br>Until we found out that it was ourselves<br>We were withholding from our land of living,<br>And forthwith found salvation in surrender.<br>Such as we were we gave ourselves outright<br>(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)<br>To the land vaguely realizing westward,<br>But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,<br>Such as she was, such as she would become.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Frost">Robert Frost</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506895" data-title="The Gift Outright de Robert Frost" data-description="The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials, Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Po..."></div> </div> </div>

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