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1892–1950

VI Bluebeard

Edna St. Vincent Millay

This door you might not open, and you did; So enter now, and see for what slight thing You are betrayed.... Here is no treasure hid, No cauldron, no clear crystal mirroring

The sought-for truth, no heads of women slain For greed like yours, no writhings of distress, But only what you see.... Look yet again — An empty room, cobwebbed and comfortless.

Yet this alone out of my life I kept Unto myself, lest any know me quite; And you did so profane me when you crept Unto the threshold of this room to-night

That I must never more behold your face. This now is yours. I seek another place.

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