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Edna St. Vincent Millay - If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual WayEdna St. Vincent Millay - If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way
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If I should learn, in some quite casual way,      That you were gone, not to return again—   Read from the back-page of a paper, say,      Held by a neighbor in a subway train,   How at the corner of this avenue            And such a street (so are the papers filled)   A hurrying man—who happened to be you—      At noon to-day had happened to be killed,   I should not cry aloud—I could not cry      Aloud, or wring my hands in such a place—         I should but watch the station lights rush by      With a more careful interest on my face,   Or raise my eyes and read with greater care   Where to store furs and how to treat the hair.
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