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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REMEMBRANCE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR.
First Line: Forget? / ah, never!
Last Line: That fate does hold for me.
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: Forget? / ah, never!
Last Line: That fate does hold for me.
Subject(s): Memory
Forget?
Ah, never!
Your eyes, your voice, your lips.
Those little ways of love,
Half-childish yet all-wise
That held me but a slave to you,
Will never loose their bonds.
The power to forget
Would Fate but yield to me.
Remember?
Ah, too well!
The hurt, the pain, the grief.
The wrack of nightly dreams,
The ruth of brooding days,
Have left a lesion in my soul
That only Heaven can heal.
Remembrance is the lot
That Fate does hold for me.
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