Since I cannot persuade you from this mood
Of pale preoccupation with the dead,
Not for my comfort nor for your own good
Shift your concern to living bones instead;
Since that which Helen did and ended Troy
Is more than I can do though I be warm,
Have up your buried girls, egregious boy,
And stand with them against the unburied storm.
When you lie wasted and your blood runs thin,
And what’s to do must with dispatch be done,
Call Cressid, call Elaine, call Isolt in !—
More bland the ichor of a ghost should run
Along your dubious veins than the rude sea
Of passion pounding all day long in me.
I am busy working to bring Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Since I cannot persuade you from this mood" to life through some unique musical arrangements and will have a full analysis of the poem here for you soon.
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