War seemed such an unlikely outcome for him. But Thomas was a man plagued by indecision, and could not readily choose between a life with Frost and the pull of the fighting in France. So close was the friendship that had developed between them that Thomas and Frost planned to live side by side in America, writing, teaching, farming. In six months, Frost would flee England for the safety of New Hampshire he would take Thomas's son with him in the expectation that the rest of the Thomas family would follow. They had no idea of the way in which this war would come between them. The two men wondered idly whether they might be able to hear the guns from their corner of the county. E dward Thomas and Robert Frost were sitting on an orchard stile near Little Iddens, Frost's cottage in Gloucestershire, in 1914, when word arrived that Britain had declared war on Germany.
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