Quotation by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Clear and diminished like a scene cut in cameo
The lighthouse, and the boat on the beach, and the two shapes
Of the woman and the man;
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), U.S. poet. The Cameo (l. 8–11). . ;

pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vincent Millay]. Norma Millay, ed. (1956) Harper and Row.
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