“[on going to Sunday school:] "It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.”

Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 Millay

Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 Millay - “[on going to...” 1

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