Millay: Edna St. Vincent Millay

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How now, my insulated friend

What calm composure can defend

Your rock; when tides you've never seen

Wash out the spans of what has been

And from your island's tallest tree

You watch advance what is to be.

The tidal wave devours the shore

There are no Islands any more.