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" I shall be gone to what I understand,
And happier than I ever was before.
The love that stood a moment in your eyes,
The words that lay a moment on your tongue,
Are one with all that in a moment dies,
A little under-said and over-sung.
But I shall find the sullen rocks and skies
Unchanged from what they were when I was young.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Sonnet XIX," Collected Sonnets. (Harper Perennial; Revised, Expanded ed. edition April 13, 1988) Originally published 1917. "

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Edna St. Vincent Millay quote : I shall be gone to what I understand,<br />And happier than I ever was before. <br />The love that stood a moment in your eyes,<br />The words that lay a moment on your tongue,<br />Are one with all that in a moment dies, <br />A little under-said and over-sung.<br />But I shall find the sullen rocks and skies<br />Unchanged from what they were when I was young.<br /><br />— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Sonnet XIX,Collected Sonnets. (Harper Perennial; Revised, Expanded ed. edition April 13, 1988) Originally published 1917." style="width:100%;margin:20px 0;"/>