A half-remembered poem

[mellicious]

I'm past the 80% mark on Leviathan Falls, but I had to stop to look up a poem. I knew most of it, but I couldn't have told you who wrote it or whether it was a poem in itself or if it was part of something bigger.

I'm sure a lot of you will know this one, too. The quote in the book is "My candle burns at both ends. It will not last the night." (There are characters trading information between brains, that's about as much as I can say about the context without getting all spoilery. Really, there is no particular context.)

Anyway, my brain came up with this: "My candle burns at both its ends/It will not last the night/But oh my [something] and oh my [something]/It gives a lovely light."

For those of you who don't know the answer to this already, it's Edna St. Vincent Millay, "First Fig" (1920), and this is the entire poem:

"My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light."


(OK, back to my book, now that my curiosity is satisfied.)


Added, an hour or two later: I finished the book. I liked it. I'll have to see if I have more to say about it after I've digested it a bit!