Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire and some say in ice; a speaker who has tasted desire holds with those who favour fire, then allows that he knows enough of hate to rate ice a sufficient instrument. Nine lines, two rhymes, and a shrug where the apocalypse should be. Frost said the idea came out of an evening with the astronomer Harlow Shapley, whom he had asked how the world would end.
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