Being Young And Green

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Rockland / Maine / United States

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Rockland / Maine / United States

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Being Young and Green, I said in love's despite:
Never in the world will I to living wight
Give over, air my mind
To anyone,
Hang out its ancient secrets in the strong wind
To be shredded and faded—

Oh, me, invaded
And sacked by the wind and the sun!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Monday, January 13, 2003

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Ratnakar Mandlik 22 February 2017

invaded and sacked by the wind and the sun! Excellent conceptualization.

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Colleen Courtney 16 May 2014

The innocence of words spoken when we are young!

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* Sunprincess * 09 March 2014

Oh, me, invaded And sacked by the wind and the sun!

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Morag MacDougall 14 February 2012

Millay expresses the acknowledgement of maturity that we were mistaken in our youth, yet how glad we are to have been in error!

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