To Kathleen

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To Kathleen by Edna St. Vincent Millay

 STILL must the poet as of old, 
In barren attic bleak and cold, 
Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to 
Such things as flowers and song and you; 

Still as of old his being give 
In Beauty's name, while she may live,
Beauty that may not die as long 
As there are flowers and you and song.

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