Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet

Poem (1928-07), “Dirge without Music,” st. 4, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 157
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Collected in The Buck In The Snow And Other Poems (1928)