What is the summary of the poem the exposed nest by Robert Frost?

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2026-03-25 08:11

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You were forever finding some new play.


So when I saw you down on hands and knees


In the meadow, busy with the new-cut

hay,


Trying, I thought, to set it up on end,


I went to show you how to make it stay,


If that was your idea, against the breeze,


And, if you asked me, even help pretend


To make it root again and grow afresh.


But 'twas no make-believe

with you to-day,


Nor was the grass itself your real concern,


Though I found your hand full of wilted fern,


Steel-bright

June-grass,

and blackening heads of clover.


'Twas a nest full of young birds on the ground


The cutter-bar

had just gone champing over


(Miraculously without tasting flesh)


And left defenseless to the heat and light.


You wanted to restore them to their right


Of something interposed between their sight


And too much world at once---could

means be found.


The way the nest-full

every time we stirred


Stood up to us as to a mother-bird


Whose coming home has been too long deferred,


Made me ask would the mother-bird

return


And care for them in such a change of scene


And might our meddling make her more afraid.


That was a thing we could not wait to learn.


We saw the risk we took in doing good,


But dared not spare to do the best we could


Though harm should come of it; so built the screen


You had begun, and gave them back their shade.


All this to prove we cared. Why is there then


No more to tell? We turned to other things.


I haven't any memory---have

you?---


Of ever coming to the place again


To see if the birds lived the first night through,


And so at last to learn to use their wings.

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