Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I
And hailed the Earth with such a cry
As is not heard save from a man
Who has been dead, and lives again.
About the trees my arms I wound;
Like one gone mad I hugged the ground;
I raised my quivering arms on high;
I laughed and laughed into the sky.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet
Poem (1911), “Renascence” in Earle (ed.), The Lyric Year (1912)
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Collected in Renascence and Other Poems (1917).

 
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