The Philosopher
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
Track 1
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I know a man that’s a braver man
I should be kept awake
I should be listening to the wind
So wisely and so well?
As many days as crawl
And what are you that, wanting you,
As any sage will tell,—
With weeping for your sake?
And looking at the wall?
As many nights as there are days
And twenty men as kind,
And what are you that, missing you,
Yet women’s ways are witless ways,
The one man in my mind?
And what am I, that I should love
And what are you, that you should be
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