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MEMORY (1) by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

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First Line: AH! THERE ARE MEMORIES THAT WILL NOT VANISH
Last Line: BUT MEMORY STANDS A GHOST AMID THE GLOOM!
Subject(s): MEMORY;
AH! there are memories that will not vanish;
Thoughts of the past we have no power to banish;
To shew the heart how powerless mere will,
For we may suffer, and yet struggle still.
It is not at our choice that we forget,
That is a power no science teaches yet:
The heart may be a dark and closed up tomb;
But memory stands a ghost amid the gloom!



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