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1892–1950

If he should lie a-dying

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am not willing you should go Into the earth, where Helen went; She is awake by now, I know. Where Cleopatra's anklets rust

You will not lie with my consent; And Sappho is a roving dust; Cressid could love again; Dido, Rotted in state, is restless still:

You leave me much against my will.

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