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Midnight Oil

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Cut if you will, with Sleep’s dull knife,
  Each day to half its length, my friend,—
The years that Time takes off my life
  He’ll take from off the other end!
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From A Few Figs From Thistles | Harper & Brothers, 1920
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