Fire and Ice

by Robert Frost

Fire and Ice was published in Frost's Pulitzer prize winning collection, New Hampshire in 1923.

An illustration for the story Fire and Ice by the author Robert Frost — Moyan Brenn, Fire and Ice, Anzio, Italy, 2011

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,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

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