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As Robert Frost once put it: Before I built a wall I'd asked to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.

From Time Magazine Archive

Monsieur and Madame de Merret were silent all the time while Gorenflot was walling up the door.

From La Grande Breteche by Marriage, Ellen

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence.

From North of Boston by Frost, Robert

Titus was walling against a wall; turning upon the Jews that same thing which they had reared against him.

From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Leyendecker, Frank X.