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Photograph Info:

Edna St. Vincent Millay in Mamaroneck,[3] NY, 1914, by Arnold Genthe.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Poem:

I will be the gladdest thing

     Under the sun!

 I will touch a hundred flowers

     And not pick one.

I will look at cliffs and clouds

     With quiet eyes,

 Watch the wind bow down the grass,

     And the grass rise.

And when lights begin to show

     Up from the town,

 I will mark which must be mine,

     And then start down!