Edna St. Vincent Millay (Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей)

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I see so clearly now my similar years
Repeat each other, shod in rusty black,
Like one hack following another hack
In meaningless procession, dry of tears,
Driven empty, lest the noses sharp as shears
Of gutter-urchins at a hearse’s back
Should sniff a man died friendless, and attack
With silly scorn his deaf triumphant ears;
I see so clearly how my life must run
One year behind another year until
At length these bones that leap into the sun
Are lowered into the gravel, and lie still,
I would at times the funeral were done
And I abandoned on the ultimate hill.

1. Euclid Alone Has Looked
2. Your Face Is Like a Chamber Where a King
3. I, Being Born a Woman
4. Still Will I Harvest Beauty
5. The White Bark Writhed

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