Poetical Sketches With other poems. By Alaric A. Watts. Fourth Edition. Illustrated with engravings from designs by T. Stothard, R. A. and W. Nesfield |
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XIII. THE PAINS OF MEMORY.
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When Joy its fairest flowers hath shed,And even Hope's blossoms too are dead,
Though Memory through the cloud of woé
A momentary gleam may throw;
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'Tis but an ignis fatuus light,—A fleeting vision, frail as bright,—
That mocks awhile the mourner's sight,
To leave his soul in tenfold night!
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