Midnight Oil
Cut if you will, with Sleep's dull knife, Each day to half its length, my friend,-- The years that Time takes off my life, He'll take from off the other end!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Cut if you will, with Sleep's dull knife, Each day to half its length, my friend,-- The years that Time takes off my life, He'll take from off the other end!
In four quick lines, Millay’s speaker shrugs off a friend’s love of sleep. Go ahead, she says—let sleep cut each day in half if you want. But she’d rather stay awake and keep those hours for herself.
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