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I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is… — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
1928
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Inevitability of deathDeath
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1928
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "Dirge Without Music." The Buck in the Snow, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1928, st. 1.

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