I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind.
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

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

Poem (1928-07), “Dirge without Music,” st. 1, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 157
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Collected in The Buck In The Snow And Other Poems (1928).