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I'm Maggie Smith, and this is The Slowdown.

You might be familiar with the famous poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost.

The poem describes how the speaker and a neighbor meet to rebuild a stone wall between

their properties every spring after winter has done its damage.

It begins with these four lines.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall that sends the frozen ground swell under it

and spills the upper boulders in the sun,

and makes gaps even too can pass abreast.

And the poem ends,

I see him there,

bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top in each hand, like an old stone savage armed.

He moves in darkness, as it seems to me, not of woods only and the shade of trees.

He will not go behind his father's saying,

And he likes having thought of it so well.

He says again, good fences make good neighbors.

Like one of Frost's other poems, The Road Not Taken,

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