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Youth, have no pity leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Age: 58 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 22
Died: 1950
Died: October 19
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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.
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O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure
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