How long it must have taken to build
This wall, that snakes among the hills
Waist-high to us where it’s intact,
Though very often shorter than that
Where rocks have fallen off and lie,
Some near, and some as far away
As those who stacked them — not, they say,
Half joking, to divide not much
From not much more, but just because
There were so many of them, and
They had to put them somewhere to use the land.
This wall, that snakes among the hills
Waist-high to us where it’s intact,
Though very often shorter than that
Where rocks have fallen off and lie,
Some near, and some as far away
As those who stacked them — not, they say,
Half joking, to divide not much
From not much more, but just because
There were so many of them, and
They had to put them somewhere to use the land.
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