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Edna St. Vincent Millay - SpringEdna St. Vincent Millay - Spring
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  To what purpose, April, do you return again?   Beauty is not enough.   You can no longer quiet me with the redness   Of little leaves opening stickily.   I know what I know.   The sun is hot on my neck as I observe   The spikes of the crocus.   The smell of the earth is good.   It is apparent that there is no death.   But what does that signify?   Not only under ground are the brains of men   Eaten by maggots.   Life in itself   Is nothing,   An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.   It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,   April   Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
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