Miscellaneous Poems to 1920/Fire and Ice
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2. Fire and Ice
(From Harper’s Magazine, December 1920.)
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,5
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.