Sonnet 05: If I Should Learn In Some Quite Casual Way

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Sonnet 05: If I Should Learn In Some Quite Casual Way by Edna St. Vincent Millay

 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.

Form: Sonnet

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