Spring
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
Track 1
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You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
The spikes of the crocus.
To what purpose, April, do you return again?
It is apparent that there is no death.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
Life in itself
April
Beauty is not enough.
The smell of the earth is good.
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
Eaten by maggots.
But what does that signify?
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Is nothing,
I know what I know.
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