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The land was ours before we were the land's

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  1. The first line of the poem “The Gift Outright” by Robert Frost.


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From Time Magazine Archive

How timely a thing this is, readers of Frost's unexampled historical poem, The Gift Outright, will quickly discern:- The land was ours before we were the land's.

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