When you are dead
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
Track 1
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Remembered morning stars, more fiercely bright
Shall I be free, shall I be once again
Oh, never more, till my dissolving brain
Leans from his chilly window in the dawn—
Of cloud, two splendid planets may appear
One moment, plainly visible in a rift
What time the watcher in desire and fear
When you are dead, and your disturbing eyes
Be powerless to evoke you out of air,
Than all the Alphas of the actual night!
No more as now their stormy lashes lift
To lance me through—as in the morning skies
And purely blaze, and are at once withdrawn,
As others are, and count your loss no care?
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