Edna St Vincent Millay: My candle burns...

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My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-
It gives a lovely light.

Source: First Fig.
-- Edna St Vincent Millay, (Feb 3 1882-1950), US author, poet; She won the Pulitzer for The Ballad of the Harp Weaver, 1922.

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