Memorial To D.C

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Memorial To D.C by Edna St. Vincent Millay

 (Vassar College, 1918)

O, loveliest throat of all sweet throats,
Where now no more the music is,
With hands that wrote you little notes
I write you little elegies!

Form: Elegy Comments

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