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Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that but some place set apart for it.
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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Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.
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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
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