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Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

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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Nancy Boyd
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty
Bare
Though
Massive
Away
Stone
Fortunate
Stones
Looked
Sandal
Heard
Euclid
Alone
Sandals

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