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MEMORIA L
DIRGE WITHOUT MUSIC Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving know. But I do not approve.
hearts in the hard ground. More precious was the light in your eyes than all
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, the roses in the world.
time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the Down, down, down into the darkness of the
lovely. grave
Crowned with lilies and with laurel they go; but Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the
I am not resigned. kind:
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. brave.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust. I know. But I do not approve.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew, And I am not
A formula, a phrase remains, but the best is lost. resigned.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
The answers quick and keen, the honest look,
the laughter, the love,--
They are gone. They are gone to feed the
roses.
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