Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me, do not let me die!S — Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me, do not let me die!S — Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me, do not let me die!S — Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me, do not let me die!S — Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me, do not let me die!S — Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
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Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me, do not let me die!Search the fading letters findingSteadfast in the broken bindingAll that once was I!

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
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