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REMEMBRANCE by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN

First Line: WHERE MEMORY BROODS, SPHINX-LIKE, WITH FOLDED WINGS
Last Line: REMEMBERING WHOM THE WORLD REMEMBERS NOT.
Subject(s): MEMORY;

Where memory broods, sphinx-like, with folded wings,
Far in the miraged desert of man's mind,
The caravans of thought through dim ways wind
Unto the tombs amid the wreck of things.
Fearless forever in their wanderings,
And leaving all the wondrous world behind,
They search the wilderness only to find
The pyramids beside Sahara's springs.

Close by the monuments that tower above
The heart's first dead, a living stream of love
Keeps green through all the years one garden spot;
And often, pilgrim-wise, our thoughts retrace
The weary way unto that sacred place,
Remembering whom the world remembers not.



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