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