| Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950). Renascence and Other Poems. 1917. |
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| 20. “Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring” |
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| MINDFUL of you the sodden earth in spring, | |
| And all the flowers that in the springtime grow, | |
| And dusty roads, and thistles, and the slow | |
| Rising of the round moon, all throats that sing | |
| The summer through, and each departing wing, | 5 |
| And all the nests that the bared branches show, | |
| And all winds that in any weather blow, | |
| And all the storms that the four seasons bring. | |
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| You go no more on your exultant feet | |
| Up paths that only mist and morning knew, | 10 |
| Or watch the wind, or listen to the beat | |
| Of a bird’s wings too high in air to view,— | |
| But you were something more than young and sweet | |
| And fair,—and the long year remembers you. | |
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