The land was ours before we were the land's

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

Example Sentences

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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"The land was ours before we were the land's ..."

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He had worked his way out of whatever limits of time & space New England had imposed on him, and could write with austere and touching grandeur about the American experience from a vantage point beyond it: The land was ours before we were the land's.

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