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The courage that my mother had
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🌻Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892 – 1950🌻
The courage that my mother had
Went with her, and is with her still:
Rock from New England quarried;
Now granite in a granite hill.
The golden brooch my mother wore
She left behind for me to wear;
I have no thing I treasure more:
Yet, it is something I could spare.
Oh, if instead she’d left to me
The thing she took into the grave!—
That courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, and I have.
The third stanza is talking about that the author wanted the her mother gave her her courage, because her mother’s courage was very strong. She also says that her mother wouldn’t need more the courage basically because is dead, and the author would need it more.