Don Morgenson's column (Open Spaces, Open Minds - April 7) resonated with his sense of sadness for a lost ethos. However, he well may have missed his punchline. In Robert Frost's narrative poem, Mending Wall, two neighbours, one of whom is the narrator, are working on opposite sides of the stone fence bounding their properties, mending damage wrought by frost. It is the neighbour who twice observes, "Good fences make good neighbours." But it is Frost's narrator (and Frost himself?) who muses, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall."