Query
Is she the sage who will not sip The cup love presses to her lip ? Or she who drinks the mad cup dry, And turns with smiling face — to die?
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Is she the sage who will not sip The cup love presses to her lip ? Or she who drinks the mad cup dry, And turns with smiling face — to die?
The speaker asks a quiet but urgent question about love, using a cup as the central image. One kind of woman refuses the drink that love offers her; she is the “sage,” careful and self-protective.
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