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Edna St. Vincent Millay · Early Poems

Poem 82 of 141 · A Few Figs from Thistles

Midnight Oil

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Cut if you will, with Sleep's dull knife,
Each day to half its length, my friend,--
The years that Time takes off my life,
He'll take from off the other end!

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