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SONNET: 2 by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

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First Line: TIME DOES NOT BRING RELIEF; YOU ALL HAVE LIED
Last Line: AND SO STAND STRICKEN, SO REMEMBERING HIM!

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide!

There are a hundred places where I fear
To go, -- so with his memory they brim!
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, "There is no memory of him here!"
And so stand stricken, so remembering him!






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