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YOU'VE FORGOT.
You've forgot the cottage door
Where the silver hawthorn grew,
Where the wood-larks built of yore,
Singing all the glad day through:
You've forgot the forest stream,
Where we two so often met;
Watching night's descending beam
Over clouds of roses set!
Love and Memory ever take
Life upon the self-same stem;
They who Love's sweet flower forsake,
Memory soon forsaketh them!
Where the silver hawthorn grew,
Where the wood-larks built of yore,
Singing all the glad day through:
You've forgot the forest stream,
Where we two so often met;
Watching night's descending beam
Over clouds of roses set!
Love and Memory ever take
Life upon the self-same stem;
They who Love's sweet flower forsake,
Memory soon forsaketh them!
You've forgot the rustic gate,
And the honey-suckle near,
Where, at eve, you us'd to wait
For the one you said was dear!
Where you vow'd by all above,
Ere you chang'd, the stars should fall!
You've forgot your maiden love—
Yet the stars still shine o'er all!
Love and Memory ever take
Life upon the self-same stem;
They who Love's sweet flower forsake,
Memory soon forsaketh them!
And the honey-suckle near,
Where, at eve, you us'd to wait
For the one you said was dear!
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Ere you chang'd, the stars should fall!
You've forgot your maiden love—
Yet the stars still shine o'er all!
Love and Memory ever take
Life upon the self-same stem;
They who Love's sweet flower forsake,
Memory soon forsaketh them!
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