Two Voices by Edna St. Vincent Millay — Read

FIRST VOICE

Let us be circumspect, surrounded as we are / By every foe but one, and he from the woods watching.

Let us be courteous, since we cannot be wise, guilty of no neglect, / pallid with seemly terror, yet regarding with indulgent eyes

Violence, and compromise.

SECOND VOICE

We shall learn nothing; or we shall learn it too late. Why should we wait / For Death, who knows the road so well? Need we sit hatching- / Such quiet fowl as we, meek to the touch,-a clutch of adder's / eggs? Let us not turn them; let us not keep the m warm; / let us leave our nests and flock and tell

All that we know, all that we can piece together, of a time when all went, or seemed to go, well.