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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

First Fig

Edna St. Vincent Millay

From “Figs from Thistles”

MY candle burns at both ends;

It will not last the night:

But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—

It gives a lovely light!