The Anguish by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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I would to God I were quenched and fed / As in my youth

From the flask of song, and the good bread / Of beauty richer than truth.

The anguish of the world is on my tongue.

My bowl is filled to the brim with it; there is more than I can eat.

Happy are the toothless old and the toothless young, / That cannot rend this meat.

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