{"id":3739,"date":"2006-11-26T12:47:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/11\/26\/3739.html"},"modified":"2006-11-26T12:47:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T20:47:56","slug":"dirge-without-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/11\/26\/dirge-without-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirge Without Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another thing I just found in old email.<\/p>\n<h3>Dirge Without Music<\/h3>\n<p>by Edna St. Vincent Millay; from <cite>The Buck in the Snow and Other Poems<\/cite>, 1928<\/p>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.<\/p>\n<p>So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:<\/p>\n<p>Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.  Crowned<\/p>\n<p>With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.<\/p>\n<p>Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.<\/p>\n<p>A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,<\/p>\n<p>A formula, a phrase remains,--but the best is lost.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,--<\/p>\n<p>They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled<\/p>\n<p>Is the blossom.  Fragrant is the blossom.  I know.  But I do not approve.<\/p>\n<p>More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave<\/p>\n<p>Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;<\/p>\n<p>Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.<\/p>\n<p>I know.  But I do not approve.  And I am not resigned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another thing I just found in old email. Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay; from The Buck in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplace-book"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}