Read history
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
Track 1
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For trouble comes to all of us: the rat
Who knows, when pain subsides, that is not that,
Music; can laugh; play tennis; even plan.
You are so proud of, to which you belong.
Not to betray the doomed and splendid race
Read history: thus learn how small a space
The other hunting beasts, keep heart and face,—
Has courage, in adversity, to fight;
But what a shining animal is man,
Work boldly; build your flimsy barriers strong;
Turn round and round, make warm your nest; among
You may inhabit, nor inhabit long
In crowding Cosmos—in that confined place
For worse than that must follow—yet can write
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